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

Shall they have died in vain?

by Theodore Henry Shackelford. Printed in dark blue on pink paper. Vignette of American flag below title. Cover title. Contains advertisement for author's My country and other poems..

Shall they have died in vain?

by Theodore Henry Shackelford. Printed in dark blue on pink paper. Vignette of American flag below title. Cover title. Contains advertisement for author's My country and other poems..

Shall it be sung in the ages?

French fold; printed on double leaves. Page [4] blank. At end of text: Charles R. Mabey: Salt Lake City November 24, 1940.

Shalam. New Mexico, U.S.A

Printed in two columns. At head of title: To readers of Oahspe ... Describes orphan asylum intended to bring up children communally on "pure diet" and teach them spirit communion. First line: Situated in a bend of the Rio Grande River.

Shalam. New Mexico, U.S.A

Printed in two columns. At head of title: To readers of Oahspe ... Describes orphan asylum intended to bring up children communally on "pure diet" and teach them spirit communion. First line: Situated in a bend of the Rio Grande River.

Shakespearean limerologies

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed on blue paper. Within double-line border on pages [2]-[3] Includes eight five-line limericks, beginning with: Merchant of Venice, one swell guy. Type-signed at end of text: A.M.J. Full name of author and suggested place of publication from typed notation on Brown University copy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Shadows of a great city

Shadows of a great city

Brown University

written by L.R. Shewell. "An original, sensational domestic drama, in five acts" "Monday and Tuesday evenings, November 22 and 23, 1886" "W.W. Cross, Manager" Includes cast, acts, and synopsis of scenery. Contains advertisements on p. [2-4]

Shadows of a great city

Shadows of a great city

Brown University

written by L.R. Shewell. "An original, sensational domestic drama, in five acts" "Monday and Tuesday evenings, November 22 and 23, 1886" "W.W. Cross, Manager" Includes cast, acts, and synopsis of scenery. Contains advertisements on p. [2-4]

Shadows of a great city

Shadows of a great city

Brown University

written by L.R. Shewell. "An original, sensational domestic drama, in five acts" "Monday and Tuesday evenings, November 22 and 23, 1886" "W.W. Cross, Manager" Includes cast, acts, and synopsis of scenery. Contains advertisements on p. [2-4]

Shadows

Shadows

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within triple line border.

Sex at thirty-one

Sex at thirty-one

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on brown card stock; at left of title cut of framed tragic and comic masks. At end of text: Artie Gold. Place of publication information from dealer; date suggested because in a 1985 dealer's list of Canadian broadsides, mostly published in the 1970's and 1980's. First line: Is like love at seventeen. It plies deep.

Several short poems

Several short poems

Brown University

by Robert Frost. Caption title. "Woodcut by J.J. Lankes." "Published by Henry Holt and Company"--Wesleyan Univ. Lib. Robert Frost, p. 38. "Printed in an edition of 2,000 copies in February 1924 for distribution at Robert Frost lectures, principally at Smith College, Vassar College and the University of Maine"--Clymer, W.B.S. Frost, p. 41. Printed on heavy rough handmade laid paper. First line of The pasture: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring.

Set aside your tears: till the boys come marching home

words and music by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Malvin M. Franklin and Anatol Friedland. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Lily of the valley" and another songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: three women greeting homecoming soldiers.