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

Plasterer

Plasterer

Brown University

Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. At head of title colored caricature of man carrying two hods of plaster. Comic valentine with six-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Plant a little garden in your own back yard

words by Walter Hirsch and Bert Lewis ; music by Walter Leopold. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Moonlight waltz": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of back yard gardens; photograph of Bert Lewis and J. Walter Leipold [i.e. Leopold], The Merry Men from Songland.

Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Galley in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4."

Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4"

Pitying the wintry clod

Pitying the wintry clod

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in blue-green on cream paper; within edged border. Title from first line. Author's name not printed on item. Imprint information from dealer, David J. Holmes of Philadelphia.

Pity the poor seaman

Pity the poor seaman

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: Thomas Porter, Seamen's Missionary, No. 159 Queen St., Phila.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Title in capital letters. At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Some other eds. attributed to Anthony K. Simmons, of Tiverton, R.I., or New Bedford, Mass. A similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At end of text, below border: Berry, Printer, 37 Plum St., Portland. Printed in reddish-brown within border of type ornaments. First line: Come all true hearted people.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

Composed by Miss Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas. At head of title two-line verse, with first line: "Do unto others as we would. Attribution questionable: one of several broadsides on a wide variety of subjects purporting to have been written by Nancy J. Smith, variously described. The text appears to suggest a publication date in the later part of the 19th century; cf. reference to a "large steamer". Printed area: 22.4 x 6.7 cm.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

By Anthony K. Simmons, Tiverton, R.I. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Title reads (Including capitalization): Pity the Blind. BY ANTHONY K. SIMMONS, Tiverton, R.I. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, two endorsements: The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] George S. Alexander, pastor of M.E. Church, South Truro. Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 22.8 x 9.7 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments on yellow paper; decorative rules separate title from author statement and the statement from name of tune. First line: Come all true hearted people.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

By Anthony K. Simmons, Tiverton, R.I. Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornaments. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. To be sung to the tune: The watcher. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this version, was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". Below text, two endorsements: The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] George S. Alexander, pastor of M.E. Church, South Truro. Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 24 x 7.6 cm. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. A similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, an endorsement: Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How, New Bedford, July 12, 1859. Printed area: 22.6 x 7.8 cm. Printed within elaborate border of type ornaments on white paper; short rules separate title from tune and tune from text; long rule separates text from the endorsement. First line: Come all true hearted people.

Pity the blind

Pity the blind

Brown University

By Anthony K. Simmons, of Tiverton, R.I. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, two endorsements: [Finger pointing right] The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] Geo. S. Alexander, pastor M.E. Church, South Truro. [Finger pointing right] Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 23.5 x 7.9 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments on blue paper; decorative rule separates title from author statement; short straight rules separate author statement from name of tune and tune name from text; and long wavy rule separates text from the endorsements. First line: Come all true hearted people.

Pisano! 1280. 1879

Pisano! 1280. 1879

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to the Royal Society of Heraldry, Pisá, Italy, by C.D. Bradlee. At end of text: Andrea Pisano! Born in Pisá, Italy 1280.

Pioneers

Pioneers

Brown University

Poem in eight three-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pioneer's song

Pioneer's song

Brown University

Written for the Pioneers' reunion by Mrs. Jane M. McCully, and first sung Thursday, Sept. 11th, 1879. Tune: Auld lang syne.