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

Sophomore Jubilee Song

Sophomore Jubilee Song

Brown University

Tune: O Susanna. Within ornamental border, printed on blue paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line.

Soon shall the winter's foil be here

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Type ornament line decorations on pages [1] and [3] First line same as title. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

Soon shall the winter's foil be here

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Type ornament line decorations on pages [1] and [3] First line same as title. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

Soon after he placed on her finger a ring

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of four young women; on verso cuts in green of Cottolene container and woman beside stove. Title from first line. Advertising card for Cottolene, a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef suet used in cooking. On recto four-line poem about Cottolene; on verso testimonials beginning: In cooking food, lard is commonly employed. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing.

Sons of Washington

Sons of Washington

Brown University

Poem in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. October 1937, A.D.

Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York

Printed in blue. At head of title cut of Revolutionary soldier in blue with eagle and 13 stars; on page [3] cut of American flag in red and blue. Cover title. Includes list of holidays (omitting Armistice Day or Veterans' Day) and rules for flag display. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially omission of Nov. 11 from holiday list; Brown University copy accessioned in 1938.

Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York

Printed in blue. At head of title cut of Revolutionary soldier in blue with eagle and 13 stars; on page [3] cut of American flag in red and blue. Cover title. Includes list of holidays (omitting Armistice Day or Veterans' Day) and rules for flag display. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially omission of Nov. 11 from holiday list; Brown University copy accessioned in 1938.

Sons of the flag

Sons of the flag

Brown University

words by George Morrow Mayo ; music by Gertrude Ross. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Madame Schumann-Heink. Cover illustration: 10-star service flag.

Sons of the flag

Sons of the flag

Brown University

words by George Morrow Mayo ; music by Gertrude Ross. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Madame Schumann-Heink.

Sonntagschul-Lieder

Sonntagschul-Lieder

Brown University

Von Pennrose F. Eisenbraun. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Contains text of four children's hymns in German and one in English, all numbered. At end of text below rule and within border: Gedruckt bei Guth, Young und Trexler, Allentaun, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Sonnets to Orpheus: 13, 14, 15, Part I

Rainer Maria Rilke. Broadsheet printed on letterhead of Penumbra, G.P.O. Hex Box 1501, New York, N.Y. 10001. Drawings of flying and sleeping Cupid, rider and train on recto, train on verso. At upper left on recto four-line poem beginning: Penumbra doesn't exist. Suggested publication date from period of existence of Penumbra magazine. At end of poem on verso: Tr., Charles Haseloff.

Sonnets

Sonnets

Brown University

Emily S. Forman and Jones Very. At sides and above text on pages [2]-[3] illustration of flowers. Printed on heavy card stock. Cover title.

Sonnet: suggested by a vision of the Jersey prison-ship

Poetry. Cut of ship seen through window at head of title; on stone of window frame: 1776; cut of skull chained to cross-bones beneath poem. At end of text: William Pitt Palmer. New York, 1865. First line: O Sea! in whose unfathomable gloom.

Sonnet: suggested by a thought of M. Angelo

Poetry in fourteen lines printed on laid paper. At head of text quotation: "Chei quei persua sa lute ... " At end of text: T.W. Parsons. / Beacon Hill Place, October, 1884.

Sonnet

Sonnet

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Date from internal evidence. Poem mentions men who died in 1850s, including Danie le Manin who died in 1857. Author lived in France between 1848 and 1856.

Sonnet

Sonnet

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Date from internal evidence. Poem mentions men who died in 1850s, including Danie le Manin who died in 1857. Author lived in France between 1848 and 1856.

Sonnet

Sonnet

Brown University

David Lehman. Christmas card from Stefanie Green & David Lehman.

Sonnet

Sonnet

Brown University

50 copies published on the occasion of Tom Clark's birthday, March 1, 1968 by Angel Hair.

Songster

Songster

Brown University

Contains lyrics of twenty four songs.