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

Perfect through suffering

Author not known. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Poem print on yellow colored paper.

Perfect through suffering

Printed on gold-colored silk ribbon. Poem in four six-line stanzas. At end of text: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Perfect through suffering

Author not known. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Poem print on yellow colored paper.

Perchance if we might read what Jesus wrote

Title from first line. Within double rule border; ornamental tailpiece. At end of text: With Christmas Greetings to the Bookfellows from George Steele & Flora Warren Seymour. Charles G. Blanden, Scr.; Will Ransom, Del.; Luther A. Brewer, Imp.

Pep

Pep

Brown University

Pages [2, 4] blank.

Pentecost

Pentecost

Brown University

Sung to tune "Manoah." At end of text: E.T. Curnick, July, 1900.

Penny wasters

Penny wasters

Brown University

Poetry. At top of each broadside: The Litchfield Studios. Complete set of broadsides issued from April to September, 1946. Author's name, title and publication date from donor, Yale University Library. First broadside is prose notice beginning: This notice is one of forewarning in regard to and in defense of certain penny wasters, and signed: The Litchfield Studios; 20 broadsides contain prose jokes and 22 poems type-signed: D.A.N. At head of eight poems: From unpublished "Silly sagas of the sea." First poem entitled: Were you there? on hearing the radio gospel hymn.

Pennsylvania drift

Pennsylvania drift

Brown University

Poem recounts adventures of Pennsylvania draftees; "drift" often stands for "draft" in this poem. Poem recounts adventures of Pennsylvania draftees; "drift" often stands for "draft" in this poem. By Harris E. Smith, of Co. G., 168th Penna., Militia. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 29 four-line stanzas.

Pen in hand I sit me thinking

Title from first line. At head of text: The following poem, written by Miss Carrie Westover, was read by the author at the first reunion of her class of '79 of the South Hadley High School ... June, 1881 ... a eulogy on Burton Gaylord ... who died March 26, 1880 .. At end of text: Read at reunion Tuesday eve.

Pellon Wesleyan Band of Hope: a grand children's concert will be held in the above school, on Saturday, November 24th...

Programme on p. [2]-[3] includes list of songs (without music), recitations, and dialogues. Programme on p. [2]-[3] includes list of songs (without music), recitations, and dialogues. chair to be taken by the president Mr. J. Radcliffe ; accompanist: Miss E. Greenwood. Title from cover. On p. 4: Hymn. First line: Father, lead me day by day. Printed in light pink colored paper. Title within double ruled border of decorative elements; program within decorative ruled border.

Peggy, let the boys alone

Tune: Barney, leave the girls alone. Printed in two columns, divided by double line enclosing line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, No. 1, south side of Faneuil Hall, Boston.

Peggy Gordon: & The wonders

Printed in two columns, divided by line of advertising between type ornaments: Solc [i.e. Sold] wholesale and retail, on Cross Street, near Mercantile Wharf, Boston. W. Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834. "Peggy Gordon" ascribed to Charles Dibdin, Jr. by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

Peace!

Peace!

Brown University

Annie Mabelle Burdick. Printed on card stock. At head of text: Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will toward men.--St. Luke 2:14. Poem. Publication date information from dealer.

Peace, the guest

Peace, the guest

Brown University

Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. At left and above text embossed illustration of holly sprays. At end of poem: W.M.L. Jay. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Peace, the guest

Peace, the guest

Brown University

Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. At left and above text embossed illustration of holly sprays. At end of poem: W.M.L. Jay. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Peace song

Peace song

Brown University

lyric by Thos. H. Ince ; music by Victor L. Schertzinger. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From movie: Civilization. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Thomas H. Ince; photographs of scenes from Civilization; border design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band and orchestra.

Peace poem

Peace poem

Brown University

by Julia Ward Howe. Poetry and prose. Poem in seven stanzas entitled: The message of peace, with preliminary information at head of text. "And now at eighty years of age Mrs. Howe ... has spoken publicly in Boston ... and now addresses a still larger audience in this new poem written for The Sunday school times." Variant of BAL 9502. Date suggested because Julia Ward Howe was eighty in 1899. First line of poem: Bid the din of battle cease!