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 exercises for a temperance meeting: at the Marlborough Chapel, on Sabbath evening, December 6, 1840

Broadsheet printed in one and two columns divided by double line within border of type ornaments on recto and in one and two columns divided by single line, without border, on verso. Caption title on verso: Nothing sectarian or political in the temperance cause. Excerpted texts printed on verso, giving opinions of statesmen and clergymen include those of Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, William E. Channing, Henry Ware, Jr., Francis Wayland, etc. Below border of type ornaments within border on recto: Printed by Kidder & Wright, 32 Congress Street.