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

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Calligraphic text; printed on grey board. At end of text; No. 55-copyright 1919 - The J. Raymond Howe Co., Chicago.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Moses cart dem melon down:: song and chorus

by Dan Lewis For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB) Caption title Cover illustration: lithograph portrait of Dan Lewis; design with scenes showing Afro-Americans, inspired by three different songs "Chas. H. Crosby lith., Boston"--Cover

Moscow

Moscow

Brown University

Author is source for imprint information. [See MS Howard 1951-1960/Archives]

Morte D'Alfred

Morte D'Alfred

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to Lady Elizabeth [sic] Tennyson.

Morning on the desert

Morning on the desert

Brown University

by Hildegarde Flanner. French fold; printed on double page. Poetry. Cover title. Printed in red and black on cream paper; printer's mark, a red ampersand, on page [4] "100 copies printed by The Ampersand Press on July 27, 1929"--Colophon. First line: Day on dewless hinges.

Mornin' On the Desert

Mornin' On the Desert

Brown University

Postcard with image of a desert sunrise on the front. The text is printed over the image. The postcard is signed "Susie" and "Chucky"

Morgelied

Morgelied

Brown University

Within red/black border of type ornaments; with rubricated initial blocks and type ornament decorations and printer's mark. At head of text, wood engraving by Jervis McIntee. At end of text, explanatory note and colophon.

More truth than poetry

More truth than poetry

Brown University

Poem predicts trouble "if the town goes dry." Poem predicts trouble "if the town goes dry." On tan paper. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Town where published from printer's union label at bottom center. Suggested publication date and state where published from dealer.