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 composed on the death of Henry Allen

By Elizabeth Underhill. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: Henry Allen departed this life February 14th, 1858, aged 21 years 8 months and 13 days.

Lines composed on the death of General Washington

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At lft of title vignette of flowers. Poem in eleven seven-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Washington died at the end of 1799.

Lines composed on the death of General Washington

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At lft of title vignette of flowers. Poem in eleven seven-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Washington died at the end of 1799.

Lines composed on the death of General Washington

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At lft of title vignette of flowers. Poem in eleven seven-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Washington died at the end of 1799.