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

Prayer for England

Prayer for England

Brown University

Reprinted from "The Conning Tower" in the New York Evening Post of September 27, 1940.

Prayer at eventide

Prayer at eventide

Brown University

On page [1] in lower half: Copyright by Thomas J. Anders (of Denver, Colo.) On page [4] in upper half inverted repeated title: Prayer at Eventide by Thomas J. Anders.

Prayer and potatoes: A sermon

by Rev. J.T. Pettee, of Meriden, Conn. Printed in two columns divided by double lines within ornamental border. At head of text: If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in poeace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?--James 2:15,16. Poem in eleven stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Prayer

Prayer

Brown University

In verse. Printed area: 15.5 x 7.6 cm.

Praise to God

Praise to God

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red ornamental border; text of poem in black. Printed inside the border, at top: Suffer little children; at bottom: to come unto me; at left: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found; at right: Those that seek me early shall find me. At head of title wood-engraving of standing woman with kneeling girl and boy. Poem in three four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Praise the Lord

Praise the Lord

Brown University

Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: William Kimberley Palmer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Praise the living

Praise the living

Brown University

Poetry. First line same as title. Author's name not printed on item. Place of publication and publisher from author's inscription on Brown University copy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pow wow of the class of '61, Wesleyan University

Within borders of type ornament sections on all pages. At center of title on page [1] wood-engraving of flying eagle holding scroll inscribed: Class of "61" and on page 4 wood-engraving of covered body on bier. Cover title. In English and Latin. Latin quotation on page [1] beginning: Lusus animo debent aliquando dari. Programme includes songs, orations and the burial of Sturm's theorem.

Potomac: a pre-Adamic legend

Prose and poetry. At head of text prose account of inspiration for poem, type-signed: C.P. Crawford. Aug. 1899.

Postcard 2

Postcard 2

Brown University

by Wally Depew. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. On recto arrangement of letters in boxes. "Postcard2 by Wally Depew"--Verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.