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

Thanks

Thanks

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. At head of text on recto colored illustration of landscape with barn and church. On recto poem in four four-line stanzas. On verso good wishes headed: Beloved Fellow Member. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Thank-U-Gram: in recognition of the good you have done

George R. Gillespie. Broadsheet printed in purple and black on glossy white paper in one column on recto and two on verso. On verso reproduction of photograph of George R. Gillespie with reproduction of article about him from the Virginian-Pilot and the Portsmouth star, Nov. 9, 1958. Includes prose and poetry. Newspaper article includes excerpt from Gillespie's Just four Unknown Soldiers beginning Come friends, lie down beside me here where spring breezes whisper soft and guards walk overhead to keep us safe.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Brown University

Printed in dark blue on one side of blue envelope within border of type ornaments. Poem in eight lines. Below poem dark blue shield inscribed in light blue: The Plaza Card Shop. Advertises the Plaza Card Shop, 114 Westminster St., Providence, R.I. Below envelope flap: Cohoes Envelope Co., Cohoes, N.Y. & New York City. Made in U.S.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Thank God for you!

Thank God for you!

Brown University

Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Thank God for you!

Thank God for you!

Brown University

Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Thank God for you!

Thank God for you!

Brown University

Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Th' ideal

Th' ideal

Brown University

Title within single line border.

Th' ending

Th' ending

Brown University

Title within single line border.

Th' ending

Th' ending

Brown University

Title within single line border.

Tesknota moja

Tesknota moja

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Tesknota moja

Tesknota moja

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Tenth moon

Tenth moon

Brown University

At head of text: A halloween poem by Percival R. Roberts, III.

Tenth anniversary: West Medway Grange P. of H. December 5, 1910

Broadsheet. On recto Programme for anniversary celebration, including singing of Anniversary song. On verso words of Anniversary song to be sung to the tune: Marching through Georgia. Song in three seven-line stanzas beginning: Lift your voices, one and all, with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah! hurrah! how time has taken flight!

Tennis fiend

Tennis fiend

Brown University

At head of title colored wood-engraving of man wearing monocle and holding tennis racket. Poem in eight lines. Comic valentine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tennessee!: Fire away!

Tennessee!: Fire away!

Brown University

Poetry. Within double-line border, with outer line heavier. Poem in five eight-line stanzas with refrain: Fire away! urges defense of Tennessee against Yankee invaders.

Tenderly the autumn dies

Poetry. Title from first line. Below poem watercolor drawing of landscape initialed: E.C.S. Manuscript poem in three three-line stanzas and one two-line stanza. At end of text: B.N. 1947. B. N. is known to have lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s (see Hay Broadsds Harris HB33346 MA)

Ten hours a day

Ten hours a day

Brown University

Calls for ten-hour day, with one-hour lunch break. Calls for ten-hour day, with one-hour lunch break. Within chain type-ornament border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Richard Driver, Valley Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates because ten-hour law was being discussed in Rhode Island General Assembly in 1885 and later.

Ten hour law!: A parody

Ten hour law!: A parody

Brown University

Parody of Longfellow's Excelsior in which a girl factory worker carries a banner inscribed: Ten Hour Law. Parody of Longfellow's Excelsior in which a girl factory worker carries a banner inscribed: Ten Hour Law. by Jericho. Poem in nine four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; must be after the publication of Excelsior in 1842.

Temperance via Prohibition

At end of text: Signed, sealed and delivered by Critic. Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 4 cantos discusses Prohibition in unnamed state, possibly Maine. Date from internal evidence.

Temperance songs!

Temperance songs!

Brown University

by R. Thayer. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Within double line border.

Temperance songs

Temperance songs

Brown University

Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.

Temperance songs

Temperance songs

Brown University

Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.