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 found

Lines found

Brown University

Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lines found

Lines found

Brown University

Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lines found

Lines found

Brown University

Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lines composed Sept. 10, 1854

by Harriett E. Mansfield, on the death of her mother. Printed on gray paper. At head of text: These lines were written by Harriett E., ten days before her own death. Her age was 17 years. Poem in nine four-line stanzas.

Lines composed on the last and dying words of the Reverend Oliver Williams: Pastor of the First Baptist Church, in Gr...

Poem in fifteen stanzas and an acrostic of ten lines spelling Richard Lee. Printed area measures 22.2 x 15.8 cm. Parentheses substituted for square brackets around "R. Island" in imprint transcription. The earliest printing known in Warren, R.I., was done by Nathaniel Phillips in 1792. Text in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; at end of second column line of type ornaments, separating text and imprint. Wegelin records with cut at head of title which is not present on American Antiquarian Society or Brown University copies.