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

New Ironsides

New Ironsides

Brown University

At head of text: Respectfully inscribed to her officers and crew by Vim.

New Hotel Potter's opening

Llewellyn T. Smith. Printed on heavy glossy white paper. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building with sign: Hotel Potter. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication from mention of Mount Kearsarge as a "beacon" in the poem; Mount Kearsarge is in New Hampshire. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire

Brown University

Tune: Old Hundred. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Lines suggested by the occurance of the Social Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire ..

New girl in my dreams

New girl in my dreams

Brown University

Cover title: Broadside Battery III. Printed on green paper. "New girl in my dreams' is from the book Monster Cookies."--Colophon.

New England

New England

Brown University

By R.C. Waterston. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

New Catherine Ogee

New Catherine Ogee

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area: 13.9 x 16.7 cm. Printed in two columns. Cut of arrangement of musical instruments and score centered beneath title. Bawdy poem in 12 numbered stanzas of which nine end in the italicized phrase: Late evening dew. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints. Design and illustration of broadside identical to one with different poem bearing imprint: Printed by S. Howe, Enfield. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), printed with his brother John in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass. and published some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. The town of Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816. First line: At Monmouth, New Jersey, a place of renown.

New as the breath

New as the breath

Brown University

Bookmark. At end of text: New Years Day 1969. Title from first lines.

New as the breath

New as the breath

Brown University

Bookmark. At end of text: New Years Day 1969. Title from first lines.

New "Pins and needles" lyrics

Poetry. Printed in three columns. Author's name not on item; Rome wrote lyrics and music for Pins and needles.

Never--forever

Never--forever

Brown University

At end of text: May we be in your thoughts as you are in ours at this Christmastide of 1936 and throughout the coming New Year!

Never use lard: Ko-Nut is here

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of pigs at market with butcher and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of woman serving pie to man and of Ko-Nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Place of publication and publisher from label on illustrated containers. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

Never use anything but Ko-Nut for pie crust: then you will never have trouble with pies

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of woman serving pie to children and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of man cooking at stove and of Ko-Nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Place of publication and publisher from label on illustrated containers. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

Nephews of Uncle Sam

Nephews of Uncle Sam

Brown University

words by Geo. Graff Jr. ; music by Bert Grant. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "The road that leads to love": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers, sailors, ships at sea, and a profile of Uncle Sam / Barbelle.

Nephews of Uncle Sam

Nephews of Uncle Sam

Brown University

words by Geo. Graff Jr. ; music by Bert Grant. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "The road that leads to love": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers, sailors, ships at sea, and a profile of Uncle Sam / Barbelle.

Nelly Clyde:: Ethiopian melody

sung by Kunkel's Nightingale Opera Troupe; composed by Ed. F. Hutchinson For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB) Cover title Also published for: guitar Library's copy has retailer's stamp on cover: From Course's bazaar...Detroit

Nellie Bly, last tie

Nellie Bly, last tie

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored picture of Nellie Bly fastening strap around the globe with four-line poem on recto; testimonials dated 1889 on verso. One of set of six cards advertising "Health Biscuits."

Nellie Bly, last tie

Nellie Bly, last tie

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored picture of Nellie Bly fastening strap around the globe with four-line poem on recto; testimonials dated 1889 on verso. One of set of six cards advertising "Health Biscuits."

Nellie Bly, last tie

Nellie Bly, last tie

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored picture of Nellie Bly fastening strap around the globe with four-line poem on recto; testimonials dated 1889 on verso. One of set of six cards advertising "Health Biscuits."