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.
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Quechua peoples poetry

Quechua peoples poetry

Brown University

Advertising for book available from Curbstone Press "an incorporated non-profit arts organization". Advertising for book available from Curbstone Press "an incorporated non-profit arts organization". Poetry and prose. Caption title. Printed in black and red on ivory paper. Page [1] is reproduction of book's illustrated cover. Page [4]: "Quechua peoples poetry is available for $6.00 from your bookseller or direct from Curbstone Press, 321 Jackson Street, Willimantic, Ct. 06226" with printer's mark in lower margin. "Translated by Maria A. Proser & James Scully."

Quatrains

Quatrains

Brown University

by Albert Ralph Korn. Printed in red and green on heavy cream paper in three columns, with a round hole for hanging at center top. In upper corners, in red: 1947. Above each of twelve four-line poems, in green, is a calendar for a month in 1947, in red. First poem entitled: Favored guest. At end of each poem is the name of a periodical in which it appeared. At end of text: Albert Ralph Korn. 785 Park Avenue, New York, New York.

Quartetting

Quartetting

Brown University

Border at top and bottom. At end of text: Dedicated to a grand guy, the apostle of harmony Mr. O.C. Cash.

Quartermaster

Quartermaster

Brown University

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of thin, ragged soldier talking to fat quartermaster. Four-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

Quartermaster

Quartermaster

Brown University

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of thin, ragged soldier talking to fat quartermaster. Four-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

Quando Canta Rosalinda

Quando Canta Rosalinda

Brown University

Poetry in six four-line stanzas; first appearance in newspaper in 1884. At head of text quotation from Ovid: Sic ubi fata vocant .. At end of text: T.W. Parsons.

Quaint verses for the holiday season presented by Margot & Richard Archer

Poetry. Issued in lettered folder printed in red and orange. At head of title of each poem wood-engraving in green and brown of genre scencs reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler (Oppenheim, 1518) Colophon on page [2] of folder: These verses have been taken from an English broadside of 1783, & the woodcuts have been reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler, printed by Koebel in Oppenheim, March 1518, and now in the Chapin Library at Williams College. This truncated version has been laboriously printed using foundry types on a Shniedewend Handpress 615, at The Sign of the Hippogryph, Williamstown, Mass. December 1963.

Quaint verses for the holiday season presented by Margot & Richard Archer

Poetry. Issued in lettered folder printed in red and orange. At head of title of each poem wood-engraving in green and brown of genre scencs reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler (Oppenheim, 1518) Colophon on page [2] of folder: These verses have been taken from an English broadside of 1783, & the woodcuts have been reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler, printed by Koebel in Oppenheim, March 1518, and now in the Chapin Library at Williams College. This truncated version has been laboriously printed using foundry types on a Shniedewend Handpress 615, at The Sign of the Hippogryph, Williamstown, Mass. December 1963.

Q. How are these poets alike?

Printed in black and yellow on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto portraits of Emily Dickinson, Karl Shapiro, Dylan Thomas and Robert Burns. On verso, headed: A. They're all on films from Pyramid Films, information about films about the poets. Suggested publication date from latest date mentioned.

Q. How are these poets alike?

Printed in black and yellow on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto portraits of Emily Dickinson, Karl Shapiro, Dylan Thomas and Robert Burns. On verso, headed: A. They're all on films from Pyramid Films, information about films about the poets. Suggested publication date from latest date mentioned.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

At head of text three-line quotation from Dante's Paradiso beginning: Lo corpo, ond'ella fu cacciata, giace. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text below rule: Printed for my niece of Italy, Ellen Parsons Monti; and my niece of New England, Francesca Monti Lunt.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

At head of text three-line quotation from Dante's Paradiso beginning: Lo corpo, ond'ella fu cacciata, giace. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text below rule: Printed for my niece of Italy, Ellen Parsons Monti; and my niece of New England, Francesca Monti Lunt.

Puzzle

Puzzle

Brown University

Home produced holiday card. Home produced holiday card. Title on cover: Christmas greetings. Poetry in typescript on white paper. Caption title. Page [4] blank. Illustration of red and silver candle in text on page [1]. Type-signed and dated at end of text: Elizabeth C. Spicer, Christmas, 1936. The author lived in Rhode Island at time of date given.

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Put your hands in your pockets and give, give, give

lyric by Gus Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a soldier, a sailor, and U.S. war chest / R.H. Patterson.

Put on your uniform of blue: for your country's calling you

words by Mary Burns Bahr ; music by Charles William Bahr. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of a unnamed man; drawing of an older woman holding a flag while two sailors look on / E.M.A.