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

Only a beggar

Only a beggar

Brown University

By Mrs. J.E. McConaughy. At head of title cut of woman opening door to ragged little girl. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Only a beggar

Only a beggar

Brown University

By Mrs. J.E. McConaughy. At head of title cut of woman opening door to ragged little girl. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ones: A sample: The Red Hill Press

Sampler of seventeen English and non-English language poems beginning with: Notes for a 'Letter to the Balinese' (First line: Feelings are nothing) / Antonin Artaud; non-English language poetry translated by Paul Vangelisti, Jack Hirschman, and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Sampler of seventeen English and non-English language poems beginning with: Notes for a 'Letter to the Balinese' (First line: Feelings are nothing) / Antonin Artaud; non-English language poetry translated by Paul Vangelisti, Jack Hirschman, and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Poetry. Issued french folded; recto to be read over entire page; verso over half and quarter pages. Text printed in blue on tan paper. Illustration of arrows in red below title on cover page. Colophon on back page: The Red Hill Press / 6 San Gabriel Drive / Fairfax, CA 95930 ... ONES: A supplement to "Invisible City #16/17, designed by John McBride & produced at the West Coast Print Center / June, 1975..

One, two, three boys: (over the top we go)

words and music by Chas. K. Harris. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: silhouette of soldiers jumping out of trench / Starmer

One year, 1914-1915: song

the poem by Margaret M. Harlan ; the music by H.T. Burleigh. For voice and piano in A♭ major. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [6-8] Also published for: voice and piano in C major.

One of the many

One of the many

Brown University

At end of text: Price: Anything you choose to give.

One mad queen

One mad queen

Brown University

Paul Mariah. White paper printed and illustrated in raw umber and deep blue; text in blue. Illustration at left of text. Poem.

One hundredth psalm

One hundredth psalm

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Old hundred. Text of hymn in four numbered four-line stanzas. Originally published in John Day's Psalter, 1560-1561.

One glass more

One glass more

Brown University

Poetry printed within double border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 15.4 x 9.2 cm. At end of text within border: No. 50. American Tract Society. The American Tract Society, headquartered in New York, began printing in 1826. Appearance and type face of this piece suggest publication not later than 1848. First line: Stay, mortal, stay! nor heedless thus.

One for Rexroth

One for Rexroth

Brown University

French folded; printed on double pages On page 1: "reproduction of a portrait of Kenneth Rexroth (December 1965) drawn by Richard Diebenkorn ..." Poem on page 3 type signed: John Ciardi from "In fact," Rutgers University Press, 1962 On page 4: Presented on the occasion of the symposiium: "San Francisco's Cultural Future," held in Kendrick Hall, University of San Francisco, and to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Kenneth Rexroth by William J. Monihan, S.J., Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, January 28, 1966.

One for all and all for one

words by Neville Fleeson ; music by Albert Von Tilzer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [8] Cover illustration: actress dressed in Red Cross nurse uniform.

One evening to tea a young man was invited

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of two couples, young and old, at tea table. Title from first line. Advertising card for Cottolene, a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef suet used in cooking. On recto four-line poem about Cottolene; on verso, headed: How to fry with Cottolene, information about product. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing.

One day at a time

One day at a time

Brown University

Printed in red on white card stock. Poem in seven four-line stanzas, one of them repeated. Type-signed at end of poem: Helen Hunt Jackson. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

One day at a time

One day at a time

Brown University

Printed in calligraphy in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text in purple. Text superimposed on illustration of lilies-of-the-valley. Poem in four lines. Type-signed at end: G.R.P. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.