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

Who loved me

Who loved me

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on pink paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Who cry to God

Who cry to God

Brown University

At end of text: Issued by the American Antivivisection Society, 36 S. 18th St. Philadelphia. Date approximation from internal evidence. Society founded in 1883.

Who cry to God

Who cry to God

Brown University

At end of text: Issued by the American Antivivisection Society, 36 S. 18th St. Philadelphia. Date approximation from internal evidence. Society founded in 1883.

Who cry to God

Who cry to God

Brown University

At end of text: Issued by the American Antivivisection Society, 36 S. 18th St. Philadelphia. Date approximation from internal evidence. Society founded in 1883.

White screen

White screen

Brown University

Announcement of the publication of White Screen, an anthology of works by John Bennett

White screen

White screen

Brown University

Announcement of the publication of White Screen, an anthology of works by John Bennett

White screen

White screen

Brown University

Announcement of the publication of White Screen, an anthology of works by John Bennett

White power poem

White power poem

Brown University

Gray paper printed in black; verso printed as a postcard. Poem in five lines. Type-signed at end: Michael Bishop. "Printed by Stuart McCarty II"--Verso. "From a set edited by Jack Dann"--Verso.

White power poem

White power poem

Brown University

Gray paper printed in black; verso printed as a postcard. Poem in five lines. Type-signed at end: Michael Bishop. "Printed by Stuart McCarty II"--Verso. "From a set edited by Jack Dann"--Verso.

White power poem

White power poem

Brown University

Gray paper printed in black; verso printed as a postcard. Poem in five lines. Type-signed at end: Michael Bishop. "Printed by Stuart McCarty II"--Verso. "From a set edited by Jack Dann"--Verso.

White on white

White on white

Brown University

Ferlinghetti. Broadsheet printed in red and black on French-folded white paper; recto in [4] pages, one serving as cover, one as last page, and two blank; text on verso to be read unfolded. On cover portrait of bearded man; at head of text reproduction of drawing of human figures captioned vertically in right margin: Drawing by Breyten. Cover title. At end of poem: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco March 1977 (After reading Breyten Breytenbach, Afrikaans white poet) On last page information about the imprisoned activist Breytenbach and the committee.

White foam

White foam

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on ivory paper. In lower right corner: LBP

Whist rules: presented by the Morse Yellow Dock Syrup Company

Within double-line border on all pages, with corner ornaments on page [1] Includes excerpts from newspaper accounts of races won by the mare Morse Yellow Dock, a poem on whist and advertisement for the patent medicine Morse's Yellow Dock. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.