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 art of poetry: for Vicente Aleixandre

Jaime Gil de Biedma. Printed in black and green on heavy ivory paper within double-line green border. Poem in five four-line stanzas. "This poem is a gift from Moe's in celebration of a new year. Translated by Timothy Baland. From Roots and wings, published by Harper & Row." "Designed & printed by Wesley B. Tanner, Berkeley." Publication date from dealer.

The arrivistes

The arrivistes

Brown University

Philip Gallo. Printed in red and black on heavy ivory paper. At end of text: Printed on a 6x10 Kelsey in News Gothic Bold, Minneapolis 1973.

The arrival

The arrival

Brown University

by Emilio Prados ; translated by Robert Lind. Broadsheet printed on yellow paper in two columns. At right of title wood-engraving of human figures by Marysole Warner Baz.

The Arab and his donkey

The Arab and his donkey

Brown University

Keepsake explains the use of rebus and cumulative verse by "poetastic printers" and prints late 19th century examples from seven newspapers. Keepsake explains the use of rebus and cumulative verse by "poetastic printers" and prints late 19th century examples from seven newspapers. Caption title. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in black and brown on beige laid paper. Illustration of donkey replaces the word "donkey" in title. "This keepsake was printed at the Arion Press for members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of their Joint Meeting in San Francisco in September 1980 and for Subscribers of the Press."

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The approaches

The approaches

Brown University

W. S. Merwin. Broadsheet. The text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Two. Verso contains Ms. poem in facsimile on right two thirds of leaf and printed version in lower left third.

The antiseptic baby

The antiseptic baby

Brown University

Photograph of baby and animals tipped on at head of text. Printed on brown paper with gilded initial.

The Antilles brave seventy

Printed in blue. United States flag in upper left corner. At end of text: Urania Nott Sangster, Buffalo, N.Y. / Copyright 1917.