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

May blossom: the fisherman's bride

by David Belasco ; with actress Georgia Cayvan ; comedian Benj. Maginley. "Monday evening, April 26, 1886" "Daniel Frohman's exquisite production of May Blossom" "With the original players as presented by them six months at the Madison Square Theatre" "W.W. Cross, Manager" Includes cast, acts, and synopsis of scenery. Contains advertisements on p. [2-4]

May 17th

May 17th

Brown University

Issued in postcard format. At end of text: John Sinclair Marquette Prison. Not later than 1973 (Acquired December 1973). Colophon on verso: Free John Sinclair. A product of woodstock nation. An Alternative Press Postcard.

May 17th

May 17th

Brown University

Issued in postcard format. At end of text: John Sinclair Marquette Prison. Not later than 1973 (Acquired December 1973). Colophon on verso: Free John Sinclair. A product of woodstock nation. An Alternative Press Postcard.

Mauly and Gold (Bell, photograph 1)

Headshots of Mauly and Gold, vaudeville performers?; In formal attire; New York; 1918 Headshots of Mauly and Gold, vaudeville performers?; In formal attire; New York; 1918 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Maud Muller

Maud Muller

Brown University

Poetry in 55 couplets printed in two columns. Undated single sheet, white wove paper. Printed in two columns. Advertisement at end of text in lower margin below first column. " ... Lithograph Scene ... Maud Muller and the Judge, designed by Barry of Boston, and executed by Cole. - For sale by W.W. Caldwell, and the publisher, M.O. Hall, 21 State street. Newburyport." Not recorded in Currier.

Matters and things in general

Tune: Yankee Doodle. Printed area: 24 x 8 cm. Within border of type ornaments. Poem; may be sung to tune, "Yankee Doodle" First line: Hark! liberty cries long and loud. Ten stanzas with chorus ridiculing Rhode Island martial law.

Masters of distortion

Masters of distortion

Brown University

Tom Clark. Broadsheet printed on ivory paper. Illustration of ink-blot at head of title on recto; illustration of trees at head of title on verso. Poem on one side of sheet with advertisement headed: Crow Quill Graphics on verso.

Masters of distortion

Masters of distortion

Brown University

Tom Clark. Broadsheet printed on ivory paper. Illustration of ink-blot at head of title on recto; illustration of trees at head of title on verso. Poem on one side of sheet with advertisement headed: Crow Quill Graphics on verso.

Masters of distortion

Masters of distortion

Brown University

Tom Clark. Broadsheet printed on ivory paper. Illustration of ink-blot at head of title on recto; illustration of trees at head of title on verso. Poem on one side of sheet with advertisement headed: Crow Quill Graphics on verso.

Master of ceremonies

Master of ceremonies

Brown University

Michael D. Lally. Printed in black and dark gray on heavy gray paper; text in two columns. Text superimposed on drawing of microphone and profile of lower part of face with open mouth. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association: sixth exhibition

Printed in one and two columns divided by vertical type ornament within border of type ornament sections. At head of title vignette of arm holding hammer above scroll inscribed: Be just and fear not. Program of exhibition at the hall of the Lowell Institute, Sept. 19, 1850 In lower margin: Dutton & Wentworth, Printers, 37, Congress Street, Boston. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Autographed presentation copy by author of ode, inscribed, "Hon. R.H. Stanton, with regards of Epes Sargent."

Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Brown University

by Frances J. White. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. To be sung to the tune: The old oaken bucket. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas with four-line refrain beginning: We sing the old Bay State.