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

My refuge

My refuge

Brown University

by William Ellsworth Witter. At head of text: "And I said, This is my infirmity; but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High." Psalms 77:10. Poem in two numbered sections of different length. At end of text: Boston, Dec. 23, '02.

My Red Cross girlie: the wound is somewhere in my heart

lyric by Harry Bewley ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "It's a long way to Berlin" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two wounded soldiers / [rose symbol]; photograph of nurse with white headress. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover.

My Red Cross girlie: the wound is somewhere in my heart

lyric by Harry Bewley ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "It's a long way to Berlin" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two wounded soldiers / [rose symbol]; photograph of nurse with white headress. Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover.

My rainbow ribbon girl!

My rainbow ribbon girl!

Brown University

lyric by Arthur A. Penn ; music by Gus Edwards. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: girl waving a handkerchief at marching soldiers in silhouette.

My psalm: poem

My psalm: poem

Brown University

by Whittier. "Music by Vander Weyde." Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

My proxy

My proxy

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. Illustration of violets surrounding text. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

My November guest

My November guest

Brown University

Robert Frost. On verso: The unbound anthology published by The Poet's Guild, 147 Avenue B New York City. Reprinted from "North of Boston" with permission...

My name is Bobby

My name is Bobby

Brown University

William Packard. Cover title. Cut of small boy by George Knowlton above title. Date suggested because date of child's lobotomy referred to as "back in 1950's" and Brown Univ. copy acquired in 1976. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in raw umber.

My mouth

My mouth

Brown University

Robert Serling. Salmon pink broadside printed in black ; bottom edge untrimmed. "A free poem from The Alternative Press."