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

Simultaneous Temperance meetings, Feb. 22, 1842

At head of text: The Committee appointed to make arrangements for Temperance Meetings on the above day at the Beneficent Congregational Church present the following Order of Exercises .. Contains songs and hymns.

Simple touching lines

Simple touching lines

Brown University

Printed in two lines divided by curvilinear line. After prose introduction, poem in eight eight-line stanzas beginning: Lay nearer, brother, nearer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Simon Grub's dream

Simon Grub's dream

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At head of text: Originally published in Our Dumb Animals.

Silver Dollar: Philips & Rance, Great Falls, Montana

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock, apparently advertising a dude ranch. On recto colored illustration of cowboys captioned: The Big Stack is our land mark; artist's initials and date: C.M.R. 1908. Poem printed vertically on verso.

Silver clothes

Silver clothes

Brown University

by Angela Morgan. Poetry. Printed in blue. Date suggested because her book with same title was published in 1926 and poem also in her Afterwhere, 1936. First line: Someone in silver clothes.

Silver clothes

Silver clothes

Brown University

Printed in blue. At end of text: From Afterwhere by Angela Morgan The Poets' Press Publishers, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.

Silver

Silver

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in green on cream card stock. At end of poem: Raymond Oliver. Date suggested because one of Postcard series #1 published in 1989. First line: Silver, if polished to a glow, does not.

Silently, tenderly, mournfully home

Printed on pale pink card stock. First line same as title. Poem in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, and because poem refers to "Volunteers," probably in Civil War.

Silent Sam, or, I never says nothing to nobody

Ornamental border at bottom, above colophon. Text of song in seven eight-line stanzas with chorus: To lol de rol, &c. &c. At end of text, badly mutilated in this copy: [Sol]d by John [L. Zieber] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Signs of the Zodiac: symmetrics

David McCord. At left of text on pages [1]-[3] reproductions of photographs of relief sculptures by Paul Manship of figures of zodiac. Caption title. Twelve numbered five-line poems, beginning with Aries: Ram. "A note on the poems" by Dudley Fitts, p. [4] "These poems were written at the request of Daniel Pinkham to preface any performance of his orchestral work, Signs of the Zodiac, commissioned by Arthur Bennett Lipkin. World première 10 November 1964 ... with ... David McCord reading the poems."

Sightings I-IX: & red easy a color

Broadsheet folded to create [4] printed pages and [2] blank pages. Checkerboard illustration in black, green, blue and purple on page [3] Prospectus for limited edition of book of poems by Jerome Rothenberg illustrated by Ian Tyson; includes order form. Includes poetry.

Sidney Lanier: 1842-1881

Printed in black on beige paper. At the bottom of the page: "Dedicated to: Richard Watson Gilder, The Friend of Lanier"