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

Memories in season

Memories in season

Brown University

Printed in red on white. At end of text: Diana and Chesley Worthington.

Memories

Memories

Brown University

Worden E. White. Page [4] blank. Text on pages [2,3] within ornamental border.

Memories

Memories

Brown University

Worden E. White. Page [4] blank. Text on pages [2,3] within ornamental border.

Memories

Memories

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. Text within green line border; green bow on left.

Memorial, Nathan Dresser Colby: born in Lowell, Mass., Jan. 15, 1854. Died in Lewiston, Me., Dec. 15, 1884

Contains poem by Albert Colby with first line: A child of nature wondered why. At end of text: This book may be had at J.A. Colby's Book-Store, 72 Central St., Lowell, Mass. Vox Press ... Printed area: 18.2 x 12.8 cm. Contains advertising for Albert Colby's book, A plain and truthful history of the Bible (rev. ed., Fryeburg, Me., 1884) First lines: His body was buried in the old historic town of Fryeburg, Me., where lie the mortal remains/ of six generations of the Colby family.

Memorial services: St. John's Church, Howertown, Pennsylvania

Broadsheet printed in blue on white paper in one and two columns. Order of Memorial Day services on May 30, 1933 includes procession to cemetery and decoration of graves. At head of text: "Lest we forget." Includes text of five hymns, beginning with From ocean unto ocean.

Memorial Ode

Memorial Ode

Brown University

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. At head of text: Read before the Grand Army posts of Boston, Mass., on Memorial Day, May 30, 1881, by Mr. George Riddle.

Memorial ode

Memorial ode

Brown University

Written by Comrade John P. Ordway of John A. Andrew Post, Boston, Mass. Within border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Poem in four seven-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.