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 baby's welcome

The baby's welcome

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With conjugate blank leaf. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morton.

The baby's complaint

The baby's complaint

Brown University

Baby complains of rough treatment by well-meaning nurse who jounces him incessantly. Baby complains of rough treatment by well-meaning nurse who jounces him incessantly. Printed on peach paper within border of ornamental type sections. Poem in five stanzas of six or eight lines. Possible range of publication dates from other dated items in scrapbook from which Brown University copy was removed.

The baby

The baby

Brown University

Caption title. Poetry in four four-line stanzas printed in black on ivory paper Broadside removed from scrapbook containing material printed between 1850 and 1861 which suggested possible range of publication dates for this undated piece. Printed on white paper (18 x 11 cm.); mounted on paper (22 x 14 cm.)

The baby

The baby

Brown University

Caption title Poetry in four four-line stanzas printed in black on ivory paper Broadside removed from scrapbook containing material printed between 1850 and 1861 which suggested possible range of publication dates for this undated piece.

The Babe

The Babe

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. At head of text on page [3] drawing of flying figure. Sewn into lettered illustrated wrapper painted red on outside. Title from page [1], not wrapper. Drawing of naked angel on front cover. Colophon on inner back cover: Reprinted by permission of the executors of Mary Coleridge, from her "Poems" published by Messrs. Elkin, Matthews and Marot. The Cummington Press, Cummington, Massachusetts. Drawings after William Blake.

The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796

Prose and poetry. Printed in four columns. Cuts of 44 coffins in 2 rows at head. At head of text: An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty four persons, who died of a malignant fever in Newburyport and the adjacent towns, in the summer and autumn of the year 1796--Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--by Jonathan Plummer, jun. At end of text below double rule: Printed for and sold by the author--Price 4 1/2 d. Short poem included in A short account, beginning: You're welcome to the blissful shore.

The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796

List of those who died (First lines: Miss Flood, Mr. Davis Lamber, Miss Hannah Cilley -- Elegiac epistle (First line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men) -- A short account of the ravages of the Yellow Fever, at Newburyport, in the year 1796 (First line: Although the execution done by this disorder) -- Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport, who have fled to the country, on account of the malignant fever (First line: The dreadful fever is no more) Prose and poetry. Printed in four columns Cuts of 44 coffins in 2 rows at head At head of text: An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty four persons, who died of a malignant fever in Newburyport and the adjacent towns, in the summer and autumn of the year 1796--Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--by Jonathan Plummer, jun. At end of text below double rule: Printed for and sold by the author--Price 4 1/2 d Short poem included in A short account, beginning: You're welcome to the blissful shore.

The awful death of a sea captain: His dying warning to his friends and shipmates. Who died with the spotted fever in ...

Poetry. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Wood-engraving of man at left of title and of devil and angel standing over four gamblers at right. Printed area measures: 26.0 x 18.9 cm. Poem in 41 numbered four-line stanzas. At end of text: Composed by the author of the Mournful song. Author's name not on item, but Shaw wrote A mournful song on the death of the wife and child of Mr. Nathaniel Knights; other broadsides by him were printed in Maine. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. First line: Good people all, both great and small.

The awakening

The awakening

Brown University

At head of text: A child's walk in a British Columbia forest.

The avengers: America's Marseillaise

words by Will Reed Dunroy ; music by Chas. Lagourgue. March for voice and piano. Page 1 unnumbered. Cover title. As sung by: Jenny Dufau.

The author of the ballads or any other man

Pages [2-4] blank; ruled. Printed in green. At head of text: By R.B. Nicol, author and publisher of a choice collection of popular songs. Address 271 Penn. Avenue, care Gibson Brothers, Printers, Washington, D.C. At end of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864 ..

The atomic bomb

The atomic bomb

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper. Within single line border.

The Atlantic telegraphic cable song

Tune: All's Well. Within ornamental border printed in two columns. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to all patriotic Americans and Englishmen .. At end of text: Cincinnati, Ohio.

The assassination and death of James Fisk, Jr.

Apologia for past excesses by murdered wealthy businessman J. Fisk. Apologia for past excesses by murdered wealthy businessman J. Fisk. Poetry in 78 lines printed within border of type ornaments in two columns divided by single line. In lower margin below border: Trade supplied by the Eastern News Company, 13 Water Street, Boston.

The assassin's vision: ballad

For voice and piano Words & music by J.W. Turner "Note: This ballad was suggested on seeing the representation of the assassin Booth wildly fleeing through the forest on his horse, startled by the apparition of his victim appearing in the trees & around him"--Cover

The asparagus seedpacket grace

Printed in dark blue and black on cream paper. Poem in eight lines. "So we send you warm greetings .... Mary, Laura & Walter Hamady"--Colophon.