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.
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Items in this collection

Moons

Moons

Brown University

by Victoria Howard. Four short verses, printed side by side, in Clackamas (First line: Nútxit ...) and English (First line: A large moon stood); each verse between rules. In lower fourth, printed in two columns below rule, background information on the author and the font designed for the Clackamas texts. Broadside received at Brown not before 1960 or after 1980; dated accordingly.

Moon the shirt and pants Monopoly man

Fielding Dawson, Stephen Emerson. Printed in black and yellow on heavy white paper. Cover title. "300 copies, 99 of which are signed by the authors."

Monumental ode!

Monumental ode!

Brown University

by O.S. Parmenter. Within double-line border. Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and indications that the Civil War is meant, since the patriots lie "in southern soil" and fought to make the land "free."

Monumental inscriptions!

Contains six woodcuts of gravestones bearing names and histories of Edward Lindsey, Henry Lewis, David Morrow, Jacob Webb, John Harris and David Hunt. At head of text: These inscriptions, compiled from authentic sources. At end of text: Mournful tragedy; or, the death of Jacob Webb, David Morrow, John Harris, Henry Lewis, David Hunt and Edward Lindsey ..

Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward

Brown University

Poem protests government treatment of Montgomery Ward when its head was ejected from his office by soldiers. Poem protests government treatment of Montgomery Ward when its head was ejected from his office by soldiers. Printed on blue paper in two columns divided by type ornament section. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce. May 11, 1944. 50 Ninety-first Street, Brooklyn 9.

Montaigne's pate

Montaigne's pate

Brown University

Upper and lower borders of books. "Seasons greetings, 1959 John, Doris, Johnny, Evan and Margaret Holmes."

Monday

Monday

Brown University

Poetry Printed on card stock Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman holding soap and washtub; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.

Mon soldat: (My soldier lad)

paroles de R. Brisson ; English version by Clarence Lucas ; musique de Louis Payette. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other music: p. [6-8] Cover illustration: a soldier marching. Also published for: solo piano, small orchestra, full orchestra, band.

Moment of silence: Christmas 1955

Poetry. Cover title. Page [4] blank. French fold; printed in green on light green double leaves; decorated initial. On page [2]: Christmas greetings from Barbara and Raymond Holden, Whippoorwill Hill, North Newport, New Hampshire. Poem on page [3], type-signed R.H.

Moment of silence: Christmas 1955

Poetry. Cover title. Page [4] blank. French fold; printed in green on light green double leaves; decorated initial. On page [2]: Christmas greetings from Barbara and Raymond Holden, Whippoorwill Hill, North Newport, New Hampshire. Poem on page [3], type-signed R.H.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Moment by moment I'm kept in His love. Type-signed at end of poem: D.W. Whittle. At end of text: Copyright 1893, by The Biglow & Main Co. Reprinted by permission.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Printed on pink silk ribbon. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text: Copyright by Bigelow & Main. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Moment by moment I'm kept in His love. Type-signed at end of poem: D.W. Whittle. At end of text: Copyright 1893, by The Biglow & Main Co. Reprinted by permission.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Printed on pink silk ribbon. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text: Copyright by Bigelow & Main. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Moment by moment I'm kept in His love. Type-signed at end of poem: D.W. Whittle. At end of text: Copyright 1893, by The Biglow & Main Co. Reprinted by permission.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Printed on pink silk ribbon. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text: Copyright by Bigelow & Main. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Moment by moment

Moment by moment

Brown University

Broadsheet. On recto text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Moment by moment I'm kept in His love. Type-signed at end: D.W. Whittle. On verso advertising material headed: Choice leaflets for letters, and for general distribution at religious services.

Moloch: a poem

Moloch: a poem

Brown University

by John Beecher. Cover title. Quotation on page 2: Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant us peace. Imprint information on page 4: Poems for the people ... Hand-set & printed by the poet. Cover block by Barbara Beecher. July, 1957. Morning Star Press. Wood engraving of nuclear explosion between title and subtitle on page 1

Molly Green

Molly Green

Brown University

For voice and piano Words, Paul Laurence Dunbar; music, Will Marion Cook Cover features portraits of Bert Williams, and Geo. Walker.

Moja najdrozsza mateczko

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Moja najdrozsza mateczko

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.