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

Order of Masonic performances

Poetry and prose. Program lists "ceremonies connected with the foundation-stone" and "consecration by corn, wine and oil" mentioning wheat taken from supply used at laying of cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument in 1825; gives words of hymn referring to Warren's death in battle and to planting of the statue of "our Master Grand" where he fell. Place and date of publication suggested because broadside concerns Masonic ceremonies at dedication of statue or at laying of cornerstone of its pedestal; statue of Joseph Warren, who had been Masonic provincial Grand Master, was placed beside Bunker Hill Monument and dedicated June 17, 1857--R. Frothingham, Life and times of Joseph Warren, Boston, 1865, p. 549-550.

Order of exercises, for Memorial Day, North Haven, Conn: May 30th, 1889

Within double-line borders on pages [1]-[3], with ornamental corners on page [1], and mourning border on page [4] Below title illustration signed H.W. Burns Eng. of building inscribed: 1886 Memorial Hall. Cover title. Includes program of events at Memorial Hall and in cemetery, including Roll of Honor of the War of the Rebellion and the text of three songs.