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.

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Items in this collection

Spurn not the little trembling hand

Spurn not the little trembling hand

Brown University

Printed in black within ornamental border in yellow and gray. At head of title wood-engraving of seated little girl holding flowers. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Spring song

Spring song

Brown University

Cover printed in green and yellow. Colophon on verso: Hand printed at Fiddlehead Press, Donn Purdy, Prop .. At end of text: Al Purdy, Ameliasburg, Ontario April, 1968.

Spring song

Spring song

Brown University

Cover printed in green and yellow. Colophon on verso: Hand printed at Fiddlehead Press, Donn Purdy, Prop .. At end of text: Al Purdy, Ameliasburg, Ontario April, 1968.

Spring song

Spring song

Brown University

Cover printed in green and yellow. Colophon on verso: Hand printed at Fiddlehead Press, Donn Purdy, Prop .. At end of text: Al Purdy, Ameliasburg, Ontario April, 1968.

Spring song

Spring song

Brown University

Cover printed in green and yellow. Colophon on verso: Hand printed at Fiddlehead Press, Donn Purdy, Prop .. At end of text: Al Purdy, Ameliasburg, Ontario April, 1968.

Spring program

Spring program

Brown University

Printed in green ink. Cut of rail fence on cover.

Spring program

Spring program

Brown University

Printed in green ink. Cut of rail fence on cover.

Spring

Spring

Brown University

Printed in colors and gold within embossed decorated gold border; text in black. At head of title colored illustration of couple with child and dog in landscape. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Gen. viii.22; Ps. cxlvii. 8, 14. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Spring

Spring

Brown University

At end of text: Printed at the shop of John Wilson, Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Spoken at a castle gate

Spoken at a castle gate

Brown University

Printed in black and green on white card stock. At head of title vignette of pine tree in green. Cover title. Poem in nine four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Donald Davidson. Colophon on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder, No. 10 / Bread Loaf School of English / Middlebury, Vermont.

Spoken at a castle gate

Spoken at a castle gate

Brown University

Printed in black and green on white card stock. At head of title vignette of pine tree in green. Cover title. Poem in nine four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Donald Davidson. Colophon on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder, No. 10 / Bread Loaf School of English / Middlebury, Vermont.

Spiritual cake

Spiritual cake

Brown University

Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. At end of text: The foregoing hymn was composed by Hannah Brownson, a Shakeress, in consequence of a story being in circulation that the Shakers put some kind of seed into their cake which made those who partook of it wish to remain among them. Date from internal evidence. Another printing of poem is entitled The heavenly manna

Spiritual cake

Spiritual cake

Brown University

Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. At end of text: The foregoing hymn was composed by Hannah Brownson, a Shakeress, in consequence of a story being in circulation that the Shakers put some kind of seed into their cake which made those who partook of it wish to remain among them. Date from internal evidence. Another printing of poem is entitled The heavenly manna

Spirit of the Crusades

Spirit of the Crusades

Brown University

Ferlinghetti. Poetry. Printed on gray paper. Printer's mark of castle in lower left corner. Colophon in lower margin: Published by Bernard Stone and Raymond Danowski. The Turret Bookshop, London. June 1991. First line: Stoney Wales.

Spirit of the Crusades

Spirit of the Crusades

Brown University

Ferlinghetti. Poetry. Printed on gray paper. Printer's mark of castle in lower left corner. Colophon in lower margin: Published by Bernard Stone and Raymond Danowski. The Turret Bookshop, London. June 1991. First line: Stoney Wales.