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

Ordination hymn

Ordination hymn

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Place of publication because Moore was a printer in Providence; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ordinance on arrival

Ordinance on arrival

Brown University

Poetry. Edition of 500 copies. Cream paper printed in black in facsimile of author's handwriting; colored deckled lower edge. Facsimile of signature at end of poem: Naomi Lazard 11/12/75.

Order of services on Bunker Hill: June 17th, 1875, the first centennial anniversary of the battle; by the Bunker Hill...

At head of title cuts of Massachusetts seal with Indian and motto "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem," Bunker Hill Monument, and wreathed view of Boston inscribed "Bostonia condita A.D. 1630, Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis, Civitatis regimine donata A.D. 1822." Cover title. Colophon at lower left on page [1] below rule: Rockwell & Churchill, Prs., 39 Arch St., Boston.