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.

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Nowhere such a devious stream

Nowhere such a devious stream

Brown University

Printed in blue, black and gray on heavy, glossy white paper in postcard format in three columns. At head of text reproductions of photographs of steamboat, bridge and lake; at left reproduction of photograph of staue of Minnehaha. Title from first line of poem in eleven four-line stanzas type-signed: Henry W. Longfellow. Suggested publication date from statement on verso: "Authorized by Act of Congress. May 19, 1898."

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poetry. On page [1] three lines of poetry in manuscript and watercolor painting of winter landscape signed: E.C. Spiero[?] Title from first line. At end of poem: Christmas 1942.

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poetry. On page [1] three lines of poetry in manuscript and watercolor painting of winter landscape signed: E.C. Spiero[?] Title from first line. At end of poem: Christmas 1942.

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Nowell! God sends the mantled snow

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poetry. On page [1] three lines of poetry in manuscript and watercolor painting of winter landscape signed: E.C. Spiero[?] Title from first line. At end of poem: Christmas 1942.

Now!: The past if we would we cannot recall

Now!: The past if we would we cannot recall

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet; blue card stock. Sub-title and first line the same. At end of text: Who was in bondage to the senses and was given freedom through Christian Science Treatment. Poetry in 4 six-line stanzas on recto and explanation of distribution of profits on verso, beginning: This poem to be sold for not less than 5 cts. each ..

Now, Marcy, said farmer Burlingame

Now, Marcy, said farmer Burlingame

Brown University

Title from first line. Contains advertising. At head of title: Jerome Kennedy & Co., 120 Westminster St., 41 and 43 Dorrance Street.

Now in thy youth beseech of Him

Now in thy youth beseech of Him

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. At head of title sepia illustration of two kneeling children pasted on. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Now and then in other ages

Now and then in other ages

Brown University

Page [2] blank. Printed in gray and black on heavy white paper; fold at top. On page [1] uncaptioned drawing of two skaters. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Marian and Richard Gutwillig. On page [4]: Two skaters. Pencil drawing by an anonymous artist. Netherlandish, XVIII century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whittelsey Fund, 1960."

Now all the world's at peace

Now all the world's at peace

Brown University

lyric by Fleta Jan Brown ; music by Peter De Rose. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: dove with an olive branch.

Now

Now

Brown University

Tune: Martyn. Within double line border.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

Novel 7

Novel 7

Brown University

Steve McCaffery. Printed in blue, yellow and brown on cream-colored paper. At head of text: Dreadnaught 52 pickup 52. Poem in three numbered stanzas, two of three lines each and one of two lines.

Nothing like Montana

Nothing like Montana

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of cattle crossing river. Poem in two four-line stanzas.

Notes for a lazy poem

Notes for a lazy poem

Brown University

At end of text: Steven Osterlund. Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed on buff paper, to the right of vertical rule. First line: Two volumes are open.