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

Semi-centennial celebration of the inauguration of Washington

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: April 30, 1839. This is probably the first edition of the poem. According to Blanck it also appears in "The Jubilee of the Constitution" ... A Discourse ... 30th of April 1839 ... by John Quincy Adams.

Selections from the Alpha Delta Phi songbook

Printed in two columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Published by Manhattan, October, 1858. Includes one song in Greek and eleven in English, beginning with Chaire, Alpha Delta Phi by G.S. Bishop; names and colleges of authors are given.

Selections from his forthcoming book Writing

Tom Raworth. Broadsheet printed in black and gray on cream-colored paper folded to create [8] pages; each text page in two columns divided by single line. On page [2] reproduction of a sonogram. "250 copies made 27 September 1977 to celebrate Tom Raworth's reading at Duke University"--p. 8.

Selected hymns

Selected hymns

Brown University

Page 1 top left corner has device inscribed: The Church of the Soul, founded May 3, 1896. At head of text: Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, Pastor.

Selected hymns

Selected hymns

Brown University

Page 1 top left corner has device inscribed: The Church of the Soul, founded May 3, 1896. At head of text: Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, Pastor.

Sehnsucht nach dem himmlischen Jerusalem

Within double-line border. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O wie schön wird es sein. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Seesaw

Seesaw

Brown University

At head of title: Song. At head of text: Tune of Shu fly.

Seen and unseen: for Janet Lewis at 90

Poetry. Printed in brown on cream paper. At end of poem: Jeffrey Akard. Colophon in lower margin. Date suggested from age of Janet Lewis, born in 1899.

Seen and unseen

Seen and unseen

Brown University

At end of text: Sent as an assurance that you will be in our thoughts during the New Year 1935. Harry and Helen Koopman.