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

Life's book

Life's book

Brown University

observed by Stanley Carter. Printed in purple on glossy white paper within double-line border. At upper right illustration of open book; at lower left illustration of joined hands; at lower right a cross. Poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, hopes, destiny

Life, hopes, destiny

Brown University

Within double line border. Newspaper clipping tipped on at head of title.

Life, hopes, destiny

Life, hopes, destiny

Brown University

Within double line border. Newspaper clipping tipped on at head of title.

Life-lines

Life-lines

Brown University

Within single line border with ornamental corners.

Life of Isaac W. Sprague

Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention of Civil War when Sprague was of military age.

Life of Isaac W. Sprague

Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within ornamental border. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Sold for my own benefit. Price 5 cents. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention of Civil War when Sprague was of military age.

Life of Isaac W. Sprague

Poem tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poem tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. At end of text below double rule: Sold for my own benefit. Price, 5 cents. Brown University copy pasted on same sheet with Memorial Day, Lonsdale, R.I. (HB25001) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention that Sprague was of military age in the Civil War.

Life more abundant: Hymn

1 broadsheet. Tune: Jerusalem the Golden. At head of text: Words by Harriet Clark and Villa Faulkner Page.

Life is in tune with harmony so deep

Printed in gold and colors within green inner and gold outer borders on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial blocks; green horizontal rules between lines of text. Illustration of climbing rose plant with flowers at left between borders, climbing rose without flowers at right. Type-signed at end of poem: Henry Van Dyke. In lower margin: Taken by permission from "Music and other poems." 1904 - Charles Scribner's Sons. "No. 241W. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Life is a complicated business

P. Roth. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red, yellow, blue and black on heavy glossy white notepaper. On page [1] reproduction of colored serigraph signed: Sister Mary Corita, consisting of lettering, with "Life" in large blue letters. Title from first lines. Includes two short poems as part of illustration on page [1] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Life

Life

Brown University

Printed on brown paper, within ornamental border. Contains other poems by W.H. Shillan.

Life

Life

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Title on page [1]: Poem.

Life

Life

Brown University

Henry Dennison [i.e. Denison] Printed on birch bark; ; irregular edges; initial block. Poem in 12 lines. At end of text: From The Columbian lyre, 1828. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.