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

Lincoln

Lincoln

Brown University

poem by Edwin Liebfreed ; music by Robert Braine. For voice and piano. Caption title.

Lincoln

Lincoln

Brown University

words by S.E. Kiser ; music by J.A. Parks. For SATB chorus and piano. Caption title.

Lina, my jet black queen:: a melon-choly love song

words by Spencer Wright; music by Maurice Clark For voice and piano Cover title Sung by: Julius P. Witmark Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of an unidentified man; striped border design Also published for: band, orchestra, banjo, mandolin, and guitar

Lily: or, Too many cuts leave little left

by Harry Brunswick Loëb. Cover title. Page [4] blank. Poetry and prose. "Dramatic poem" with "Prefatory note" printed in blue on grey-blue paper within double rule.

Lilacs for papa

Lilacs for papa

Brown University

At head of text: (Original) At end of text: Harford, June 12, 1885.

Likewise we do not care to tell

1 broadsheet printed on tan card stock. On verso advertisement for Sea Foam, apparently a kind of baking-powder. On recto illustration of costumed man with large can of Sea Foam. Title from first line of poem. Date from internal evidence.

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Lignum vitae

Lignum vitae

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Page [4] blank. Printed in red and black. Cover title. "Christmas 1958." On page [3] poem in five five-line stanzas.

Light and heat, science and love

Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: T.L. Harris. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Light a cigarette and the bus comes

Laurie Schneider. Printed on heavy pale gray paper. Title from first line. Poem in 21 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lifts objects: meters

Lifts objects: meters

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Two lines of text printed vertically. At center illustration of group of meters resembling automobile speedometers. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Lifting stone: a painting by Katharine Sturges

May Sarton. Printed in red on ivory paper. At end of text: May Sarton/ Christmas-1955. Place of publication suggested by May Sarton's residency in Cambridge and type comparisons of broadsides. Poem. Listed in Witter Bynner (& friends), no. 134.

Life's problem

Life's problem

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Text on p. [1] within decorative border.

Life's call

Life's call

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red; border of type ornaments on page [1] Cut of soldier on horseback holding American flag in upper left corner, page [1] At end of text on page [1]: Francois Deighton. 9-30-17. Copyright by Dr. F.E. Dayton ... Rock Island, Ill.