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.
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Items in this collection

Notabilia

Notabilia

Brown University

Pages [1,4] blank. Proof. At head of text: ... we are enabled to print the following letter, written to Nathan Hale by his classmate, E. Marvin .. At end of text: In memoriam ..

Not up to his work

Not up to his work

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. Poem in 16 six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Not one, but two

Not one, but two

Brown University

At head of text: To a friend on the loss of two children. At end of text: Died in Boston, March 19, Caroline Eustis, daughter of William Henry and Philena M. Kennard, aged 8 yrs. Publication date noted on verso.

Not of the past is he who bore

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in gold, red, purple and black on glossy white card stock. Title from first line of eight-line poem on page [1] On page [1] in upper right and lower left: 1732. 1898; sepia portrait of George Washington at upper left; sepia illustration of Mount Vernon at lower right. On page [3] menu for elaborate dinner Feb. 22, 1898. Embossed in lower left margin on page [1]: C.E. Morrell Co. Elmira, N.Y. Publisher from envelope acquired with Brown Univ. copy.

Not knowing

Not knowing

Brown University

Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!

Not knowing

Not knowing

Brown University

Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!

Not knowing

Not knowing

Brown University

Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!

Not forgotten

Not forgotten

Brown University

Printed in four columns. Includes text of eight patriotic songs, beginning with Not forgotten. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Not forgetting stars, wise men and manger

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

Not forgetting stars, wise men and manger

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

Not forgetting stars, wise men and manger

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

Not a summer night's dream

Poem. Attributed to Eugene Field. Page [4] blank. Printed on blue paper. First line: While recovering from my operation.

Not a summer night's dream

Poem. Attributed to Eugene Field. Page [4] blank. Printed on blue paper. First line: While recovering from my operation.

Not a summer night's dream

Poem. Attributed to Eugene Field. Page [4] blank. Printed on blue paper. First line: While recovering from my operation.

Norwich Connecticut The Rose of New England: 250th anniversary founding of the town, 125th anniversary incorporation ...

Woven in colors on ivory silk ribbon; bottom corners pasted back to make triangular tip. At head of text illustration of pink rose with leaves; at end of text illustration of two draped American flags with pink roses. Includes poem in red and blue lettering type-signed: Anson G. Chester, 1859. On folded-over bottom edges: Thomas Stevens, Ltd. Coventry, England.

North-west America

North-west America

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Poem on recto surrounded by drawings vignettes of scenes with Indians. At top scroll: Church Missionary Society.

North-west America

North-west America

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Poem on recto surrounded by drawings vignettes of scenes with Indians. At top scroll: Church Missionary Society.

North Church rhapsody, no. 5

With ornamental border. At head of text: Unde venis, cujus aceto? .. At end of text: Observer, Newburyport, May, 1870. Note.-A "Rhapsody" on the "Old South" .. First line: I wrote some lines once on a time.

North Carolina: a call to arms!!!

Printed on yellow paper. At head of text vignette of hand reaching down from clouds and holding scales. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Thompson & Co., Printers, Raleigh, 1861. Poem by Luala, i.e. Mrs. Ayer Miller.