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

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Nido de los ángeles

Nido de los ángeles

Brown University

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.1 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Niagara Falls, U.C

Niagara Falls, U.C

Brown University

On recto, within border of type ornaments, certificate that [blank] has passed behind the great falling sheet of water to Termination Rock. On recto eight-line poem by Willis Gaylord Clark; prose introduction begins: The following lines were written. Publication date because last digit of date printed as 183[blank] is filled in in ms. as "9" on Brown University copy.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

At head of text: From Goat Island Tower, July, 1867. Within double line border.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

At head of text: From Goat Island Tower, July, 1867. Within double line border.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

At head of text: Suggested while standing on "Termination Rock" .. First line: I am alone amid thy tone.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

Pages [1,4] blank. At end of text: Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns divided by double line; within double rule border. At head of poem: The author of this poem, Jose Maria Heredia, a native Cuba [i.e. Cuban], died in 1837, at the age of thirty-five years. All other efforts to picture the grandest scene on the American continent appear tame and insignificant when compared with the inspired words of this Spanish exile.

News

News

Brown University

by Walter De la Mare ; drawings by Barnett Freedman. Sewn into blank white paper cover and blue lettered illustrated paper outer cover. Cover title. Illustration on page [1] with text at right, a quotation from the poem, beginning: The world founders in air.

New-York Street: [sung by Mr. John Thomas]

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Cut of ship flying American flag at head of left column and seated young woman at head of right column. At end of second column below single rule: Printed and sold by Christian Brown, 211 Water near Fulton-st. New York. Ch. Brown was listed at above address between 1825 and 1834.

New York town for me

New York town for me

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in green, on verso in black. At left of title illustration of man walking towards city past signpost labeled: New York. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; music by Albert Von Tilzer. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

New Year's song

New Year's song

Brown University

Mrs. H.S. Osborne. Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas printed within ornamental border; decorated lozenge ornament separating title and text. Printed note at end below curvilinear line within border: Sung by the pupils of the Peabody and Holten Schools, Danvers, on being informed that George Peabody, Esq., London, had signified his intention to give them $200, annually, in prizes. In bottom margin below border: Essex Co. Mercury and Danvers Courier. George Peabody, a Danvers native known for his philanthropic undertakings, moved to London in 1837 and lived there until the end of his life. Possible range of dates suggested by period newspaper was published under above name.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

Brown University

Poetry in six-line stanzas printed in black on blue-green paper. Caption title. Page [4] blank. Title on cover: A Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Type-signed at end: Martin Schütze. Publication date supplied by donor.

New Year's Day at the end of a decade

Page [2] blank. White paper printed in black and red; rubricated initial. "Radcliffe Squires is author of this poem. It first came out in The Nation c1972, and is here reprinted for the firends of the author at Christmastide mcmlxxii"--p. [4]