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

Major's only son

Major's only son

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area measures: 19.8 x 16.9 cm. 140 lines printed in three columns; double rule between title and text. At end of text below single line: Sold Wholesale and Retail at Burnham's south east corner of Faneull [sic] Hall Market, Boston. Burnham's sold other dateable broadsides during the early 1830s at above address. This edition not in Ford, or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Major Jack Downing's celebrated pills, for removing the deposits

Printed on yellow paper in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within ornamental border. Cut of Andrew Jackson in bedroom being offered spoonful of pills by standing man; dialogue above heads: My pain is great-I can't endure it! Then take these pills, and they will cure it. Prose account of pills at end of text, with address of Providence druggist. First line: After his famous Bank attack.

Maine

Maine

Brown University

Printed on card stock. At head of text: Everybody sing. To be sung to the tune: Auld lange [i.e. lang] syne. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: (Lester Hart) former sec'y to Gov. Milliken. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Madonna

Madonna

Brown University

Printed in blue on blue paper; text on p. [3]. On cover: Madonna. Christmas 1910.

Madonna

Madonna

Brown University

Printed in blue on blue paper; text on p. [3]. On cover: Madonna. Christmas 1910.

Madonna

Madonna

Brown University

Printed in blue on blue paper; text on p. [3]. On cover: Madonna. Christmas 1910.

Madonna

Madonna

Brown University

Printed in blue on blue paper

Madelon (I'll be true to the whole regiment): song

lyric by Louis Bousquet ; English version by Alfred Bryan ; music by Camille Robert. March for voice and piano. English and French words. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2] and [6]

Mad willow lover

Mad willow lover

Brown University

Poetry in three four-line stanzas. Mimeographed typescript on gold paper. At head of text in upper left: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Mad Muller

Mad Muller

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on gray paper within double-line border. At head of text on recto two cuts of farmer with pigs. On recto poem in 16 couplets; on verso advertisement for hog rings and other farm equipment headed: H.W. Hill & Co., agricultural hardware specialties. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ma Susie Anna

Ma Susie Anna

Brown University

words and music by Jimmy Dewey For voice and piano Cover title "Musical supplement of the Sunday Examiner"--Cover As sung by: Violet Dale and Chas. Barrington Cover illustration: photographs of Violet Dale and James Dewey; drawing of red and white birds on yellow background