Performance and Entertainment

Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

Items in this collection

The battle cry of peace

The battle cry of peace

Brown University

words by Daniel J. Hanifen ; music by Bernard H. Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: design with American eagle and stars / .F.

The battle at Mill Springs

Composed by A.W. Harmon. Poetry in 8 eight-line stanzas divided by curvilinear line; within border of type ornaments. Internal evidence suggests publication during the Civil War after the battle.

The base of all metaphysics

French fold; printed on double leaves Printed in red and gray with decorated initial block; lines of type ornaments at top and end of pages [1] and [3] Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

The barefoot boy

The barefoot boy

Brown University

Text and illustration within single line border. Each verse with initial block within individual line borders superimposed on parts of illustration of barefoot boy in countryside. At end of text within line border: Copyright 1915 by Clara Wander, Chicago.

The barefoot boy

The barefoot boy

Brown University

Text and illustration within single line border. Each verse with initial block within individual line borders superimposed on parts of illustration of barefoot boy in countryside. At end of text within line border: Copyright 1915 by Clara Wander, Chicago.

The barefoot boy

The barefoot boy

Brown University

Text and illustration within single line border. Each verse with initial block within individual line borders superimposed on parts of illustration of barefoot boy in countryside. At end of text within line border: Copyright 1915 by Clara Wander, Chicago.

The Baptist way

The Baptist way

Brown University

by A.L. Vail. Bi-Centennial of the Philadelphia Baptist Association. Reprinted from The Baptist Commonwealth. Title on page [1] within double-line border with illustration in center.

The banks of Newfoundland

At head of text: In the winter of 1894 and 5, among the hundreds of families in the Southern portion of Newfoundland, great destitution prevailed, financial distress having prevented the obtaining of winter supplies ... The stricken condition, and response thereto, have given rise to the following. At end of text: Hyde Park, Mass., April, 1895.

The balm of thousand flowers

Advertising brochure. Within single line border. Date suggested by appearance of item and life of A. Lewis.

The ballad of the dead woodcutter

Jack Spicer. French fold; printed on double page. Printed in red and black on yellow paper within ornamental border on page [1] Cover title. Poem in six two-line stanzas. Printer's mark in red on last page. Imprint from Lepper, p. 381.

The ballad of the Banff-Windermere Highway

Crawford Hamilton. Page [4] blank. Printed in sepia on heavy cream paper. At head of title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of automobile on mountain road. Cover title. Poem in eight stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end: Crawford Hamilton, Kootenai Lodge, Invermere, B.C. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The ballad of Benjamin Britt: expelled from Wesleyan University October 25, 1837

composed by Richard Leighton Greene. Printed in dark and light green on white paper. Illustrated by wood-engravings of college buildings, a horse and a man walking. Author statement continues: In commemoration of the retirement of John William Spaeth, Jr. as Dean of the Faculty of Wesleyan University. Cover title. Includes excerpt from the Wesleyan faculty minutes of Oct. 25, 1837. Poem in Scottish dialect in 23 stanzas.

The bald eagle

The bald eagle

Brown University

At head of title: The Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph. Contains prose.