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

No prophet

No prophet

Brown University

At head of text: For Irving Layton. "Reprint from The Queen's Quarterly--Volume LXIX--No. 3, Autumn 1962." Originally issued: Kingston, Ont. Published in: Queen's quarterly, 1962

No patches on my pants

No patches on my pants

Brown University

Issued in postcard format. Numbered (281) above title in center of upper margin. At end of poem: American Economist; below "The American Protective Tariff League New York. Copyright, 1912".

No patches on my pants

No patches on my pants

Brown University

Issued in postcard format. Numbered (281) above title in center of upper margin. At end of poem: American Economist; below "The American Protective Tariff League New York. Copyright, 1912".

No one said goodbye to me

words by L.B. Arthur ; music by B.S. Edwards. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier saying goodbye to his sweetheart / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.

No mount like Calvary

No mount like Calvary

Brown University

Poem compares other Biblical mountains to Calvary. Poem compares other Biblical mountains to Calvary. Written by J.R. Huckins, Lubec Me. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in nine four-line stanzas. At end of text within lower border: Copyright secured. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints. Possible range of publication dates suggested from internal evidence, especially type face and border.

No moon to-night

No moon to-night

Brown University

At head of title: First poetry set up by William T. Barron for the Baltimoe [i.e. Baltimore] Statesman January 6th, 1869.

No glory in never falling

French fold; printed in red and black on white paper on double page. Two poems Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence

No cake comes too high for me

words by Dave Reed; music by Ferdinand Singhi For voice and piano Caption title Rag time chorus: p. [6] Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 7-8] Cover illustration: Afro-American couple dancing near a cake. Library's copy inscribed: E.A. Young

Ningwano!

Ningwano!

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page in black and red. At head of title drawing signed "Dingle" of Indian and tree trunk. Poem in four lines. "Ye Yule Tyde greetings from ye quaint and mystical 'Cathedral of the Forest,' Abbey Dawn. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb Christmasse 1958." "The drawing is by Adrian Dingle, A.R.C.A., and is from Tecumtha ...."

Ningwano!

Ningwano!

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page in black and red. At head of title drawing signed "Dingle" of Indian and tree trunk. Poem in four lines. "Ye Yule Tyde greetings from ye quaint and mystical 'Cathedral of the Forest,' Abbey Dawn. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb Christmasse 1958." "The drawing is by Adrian Dingle, A.R.C.A., and is from Tecumtha ...."

Nine years-long years have rolled away

Title from first line. Within ornamental border. At head of text: To the public. The bearer, having lost his eyesight in the pursuit of his business, and having a family depending on him for support, and not wishing to become a burden to the public, takes this means of gaining a livelihood for himself and family, and most respectfully craves your patronage. He is selling this at any price.

Nightmare for future reference

Broadsheet torn from New Yorker magazine, pages 19-20. Poem printed in two columns. At left and right of title drawings of cannons and barbed wire; below poem on page 20 Helen Hokinson cartoon of man and woman captioned: George, guess what! I've just hired a Swedish nobleman!" Type-signed at end of poem: Stephen Vincent Benét. Possible range of dates from internal evidence.

Night: The house of dreams: two poems

by W. Wilfred Campbell ; issued privately to his friends for the New Year, 1903. Page [4] blank. Printed on gray handmade paper. Cover title.