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

Lines to a Copperhead!

Lines to a Copperhead!

Brown University

by S.C.C. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text prose introduction beginning: An editor in southern Illinois was accused by a brother editor with being a Copperhead. Poem in nine eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Army of the Tennessee, April 15, 1863. [Copy-right applied for.]

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

Brown University

by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

Brown University

by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

Brown University

by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.

Lines on the reduction of pay

Calls for strike against 25 per cent pay reduction. Calls for strike against 25 per cent pay reduction. Within border of type ornaments. To be sung to the tune: Narragansett Bay. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Ring, ring the bell at the first grey streak of dawn. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lines on the death of the lovely and accomplished Mrs. L.B. Wyman, of Brooklyn

by Mrs. Balmanno. Pages [2-4] blank. Printed on blue paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line; within single line border. Date suggested because other broadsides by Mrs. Balmanno have printed dates of 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1853, and because of appearance of item. First line: Thou art gone from me forever.

Lines on the death of the lovely and accomplished Mrs. L.B. Wyman, of Brooklyn

by Mrs. Balmanno. Pages [2-4] blank. Printed on blue paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line; within single line border. Date suggested because other broadsides by Mrs. Balmanno have printed dates of 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1853, and because of appearance of item. First line: Thou art gone from me forever.