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 76th reunion

My 76th reunion

Brown University

At upper left seal in green of Bryant College. Poem in four stanzas of four lines each and one of six lines. At end of text: This poem was written and read by Mrs. Helen F. Goff of the class of 1891 at the 1967 Alumni Homecoming at Bryant College on May 15, 1967. Mrs. Goff is 94 years old ....

Mute woman

Mute woman

Brown University

Poem printed by Richard & Barbara Outram. Illustrated cover. "For Christmas 1960"--P. [4]

Mute woman

Mute woman

Brown University

Poem printed by Richard & Barbara Outram. Illustrated cover. "For Christmas 1960"--P. [4]

Music in my heart

Music in my heart

Brown University

Poetry. Type-signed at end: Alexander Mackenzie Watson, November 27, 1950.

Music everywhere

Music everywhere

Brown University

Christmas card. At end of text: These lines, written on Christmas Day, 1930, are sent out a year later with the greetings of the season from Harry and Helen Koopman.

Music

Music

Brown University

Poem in 24 lines. At end of text: Dedicated to Theodore Thomas, Leopold Damrosch, Patrick S. Gilmore, Sousa. By William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts. January 1935, A.D.

Murder of Joseph White: The following lines were written on the death of Mr. Joseph White, of Salem, who was found mu...

Poetry in ten stanzas. To be sung to the tune: Auld Lang Syne. Printed area measures 21.6 x 13.3 cm. Joseph White's murder, committed for profit motives at the instigation of Richard Crowninshield by Joseph and Frank Knapp, became a celebrated criminal case because of Daniel Webster's involvement and oratory. At head of text, below illustration of a coffin, four lines of song. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail, at No. 1, South side of Faneuil Hall --- Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831. This edition not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford. First line: O what a horrid tale to sound.

Murder of Joseph White

Murder of Joseph White

Brown University

Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail, corner of Merchants' Row & Market Square, Boston. Cut of coffin at head of text, above four lines of poetry beginning: Shall auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind. At head of text above coffin: The following lines were written on the death of Mr. Joseph White, of Salem, who was found murdered in his bed, on the morning of the 7th of April, 1830, aged 82 years. Joseph White's murder, committed for profit motives at the instigation of Richard Crowninshield by Joseph and Frank Knapp, became a celebrated criminal case because of Daniel Webster's involvement and oratory. First line: O what a horrid tale to sound.

Munson's Hill!

Munson's Hill!

Brown University

Tune: "Call me pet names" Within border of type ornaments; woodcut of hunter with dog at head of title.

Municipal concerts given by the City of Providence: Fairman's Band, Roswell H. Fairman, conductor and Providence Comm...

Broadsheet printed in one column on recto and two columns divided by single line on verso. On recto program for afternoon and evening concerts, with different selections, at Roger Williams Park on July 29, 1917. On verso, headed: The Community Chorus belongs to the people, words of six popular and patriotic songs, beginning with America.

Munchausen's wonderful shot

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. On recto colored illustration of man in 18th-century clothing firing rifle, watched by boy fairy standing beside box of tobacco. Heading on recto: Smoke Gail & Ax's Little Joker tobacco. Title from title of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Munchausen is fired into the enemy's camp

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. On recto colored illustration of man in 18th-century clothing being fired from cannon by boy fairy standing beside box of tobacco. Heading on recto: Smoke Gail & Ax's Little Joker tobacco. Title from title of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Munchausen and the surprising cheese island

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. On recto colored illustration of man in 18th-century clothing and boy fairy with box of tobacco standing by huge broken egg from which baby bird emerges. Heading on recto: Smoke Gail & Ax's Little Joker tobacco. Title from title of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Munchausen and the great snow thaw

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. On recto colored illustration of man in 18th-century clothing lying in snow, watched by boy fairy with box of tobacco. Heading on recto: Smoke Gail & Ax's Little Joker tobacco. Title from title of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Munchausen and the big black fox

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. On recto colored illustration of man in 18th-century clothing whipping black fox, watched by boy fairy leaning on box labelled, "Little Joker long cut smoking & cigarette tobacco." Heading on recto: Smoke Gail & Ax's Little Joker tobacco. Title from title of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Mt. Holyoke twenty-fifth, 1862

Pages [2,4] blank. Poetry. Within ornamental border on page [1], double line border on page [3] Between title and title of poem: Animo et fide. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which became Mount Holyoke College, opened in 1837.

Mt. Holyoke Lodge: Funeral dirge

Printed on card stock within border of type ornaments. Between title and subtitle cut of Masonic symbols on open book. To be sung to the tune: Pleyel's hymn. Text of dirge in three four-lne stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.