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

Ryder

Ryder

Brown University

Printed in blue and black on blue-gray paper. On page [4] blue cut of unicorn superimposed on advertising matter. Prospectus for Twenty poems by J.M. Haines and Journeyman by A. Brilliant, each containing a poem entitled Ryder.

Running people

Running people

Brown University

Broadsheet; folded to create 2 narrow and 2 wide pages, unnumbered; page [2] blank. Printed in brown and black on white ground and in white on black ground; cuts of human figures, animals, buildings and train interspersed with captionlike text. Author's name not on item. Authorship, date and place of imprint from dealer; press from poems by Lowry illustrated by Flora printed in 1930's by Little Man; dealer also names Flora. Dealer calls item section 3 part 4 of first series.

Rumination

Rumination

Brown University

Printed by The Wayzgoose Press, April 29, 1947.

Ruins

Ruins

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed on back of advertisement for the Miami Paper Company; poem on pages [2]-[3]; initial block; possibly proof sheet. At head of title prose paragraph headed: Calais, summer of 1917. At end of poem: April 27, 1926. East Calais, Summer, 1917. Poem in one stanza of two lines and seven of four lines.

Royalton's morning

Royalton's morning

Brown University

by Mary E. Whitney. 1 broadsheet. Broadside folded into thirds to create six pages. Title page within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Commemorating the burning of Royalton by Indians and the brave act of Mrs. Handy in rescuring [sic] nine small boys from captivity October 16, 1780.

Royal proclamation

Royal proclamation

Brown University

Printed on white silk within architectural border of type ornaments. Below title vignette of musical instruments and open music book. Text of hymn in six four-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: Lo! He reigns; He reigns victorious. At end of text inside lower border: Thomas F. Parkinson, Printer, Carlisle. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Rowing over the Sound

Rowing over the Sound

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy white paper within blue single-line border with crossed corners. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: E.R. Collins. In lower left corner: G.D. Meeker. Suggested place of publication from mentions of "Springfield, our town" and Staten Island Sound; Springfield, N.J. is not far from Staten Island Sound. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Row on Woodrow, row on

Row on Woodrow, row on

Brown University

words by M.V.B. Blood ; music by Eugene Platzmann. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to President Woodrow Wilson." Cover illustration: caricature of Woodrow Wilson rowing toward Germany; photograph of Col. M.V.B. Blood.

Roving pedlar: and The bonnets of blue

Poetry. Printed area measures 19.7 x 16.8 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at both ends: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, corner of Merchants Row and Market Square, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as No. 1, Faneuil Hall, South side. The bonnets of blue" is a shortened and re-arranged version, with added refrain, of an unfinished patriotic song by Robert Burns. See R. H. Cromek's "Reliques of Robert Burns..." (1809), p. 279. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Routines

Routines

Brown University

Tom Wayman. Poetry. Printed on golden-brown paper. Place of publication and date suggested because piece was offered in a dealer's 1985 list of Canadian broadsides, mostly published in 1970's and 1980's. First line: After a while the body doesn't want to work.

Rouse ye, America!

Rouse ye, America!

Brown University

[words by] E.W. Newton ; [music by] E.W. Newton ; harmonized and arranged by H.S. Leavitt. For chorus (SATB) and piano. Caption title.

Rough and ready cabin, The Hermitage, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, August 5th, 1876: In memoriam. Captain Frank Willia...

Printed in two columns divided by single line within mourning border. Main text is poem in 15 numbered eight-line stanzas entitled: Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Name of poem's author not on item. At end of text below rule: Major Halsted, to Congregational Church Sunday School, Rev. Chas. B. Sheldon, Pastor, Excelsior, Minn.

Rotapoems

Rotapoems

Brown University

Emmett Williams. Cover title. White paper printed in black; folded into four panels with two sections each; to be read by panel. Contains six numbered versions of a ten-line poem in German dialect.

Roswell Smith

Roswell Smith

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Julia, his daughter, wife of George Inness Junior, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A.. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Roses of yesterday

Roses of yesterday

Brown University

Arthur Henry Goodenough. Printed on birch bark; irregular edges; initial block. First line same as title. Poem in two stanzas of eight lines each and two of seven. At end of text: June 3, 1924. Place of publication and publisher from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.