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 on the death of Peter B. Guernsey

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Poem in fifteen four-line stanzas describing death of railroad engineer in head-on collision. Date suggested by dealer and by appearance of item. First line: He's paid the debt we all must pay.