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

Life

Brown University

Printed in red, blue, gold and black on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial. Type-signed at end: Edward Rowland Sill. "Printed in Bavaria. No. 98."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Life

Life

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: Henry David Thoreau's poem "Life" has been printed but once before ... the present text is that of the 1864 facsimile edition and is the first separate printing of the poem.

Lies

Lies

Brown University

Burnt sienna paper printed and illustrated in black; verso printed as a post card. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: Allan Block. "Printed by Stuart McCarty"--Verso.

Lies

Lies

Brown University

Burnt sienna paper printed and illustrated in black; verso printed as a post card. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: Allan Block. "Printed by Stuart McCarty"--Verso.

Lies

Lies

Brown University

Burnt sienna paper printed and illustrated in black; verso printed as a post card. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: Allan Block. "Printed by Stuart McCarty"--Verso.

Libreta memoranda 3/3 China, Urss

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.2 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Libreta memoranda 2/3 Cuba, Checoslovaquia, Italia

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.2 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Libreta memoranda 1/3 Cuba

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.2 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Libratto of forest festival

Text for songs for a three part performance. Printed in two columns divided by rule; beginning with "Grand opening chorus", "Away, away!" with first line: Away! away! the morning freshly breaking. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Libratto of forest festival

Text for songs for a three part performance. Printed in two columns divided by rule; beginning with "Grand opening chorus", "Away, away!" with first line: Away! away! the morning freshly breaking. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Liberty's flag

Liberty's flag

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Issued as printed postcard. Contains advertising, poem and background information on the Liberty statue and bell, U.S. flag.

Liberty's flag

Liberty's flag

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Issued as printed postcard. Contains advertising, poem and background information on the Liberty statue and bell, U.S. flag.

Liberty's bell

Liberty's bell

Brown University

Poem. Ascribed to Madge Morris Wagner; cf. letter reproduced on p. [1] Includes text of undated letter from William O. McDowell, chairman, to the committee (p. [1]), also of letter from Harr Wagner, superintendent of schools, San Diego, Calif., to McDowell, March 5, 1893 (p. [2]); at head of text of second letter: Editor's Office. The golden era. Madge Morris Wagner. Includes references to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield. First line: "There's a legend told of a far-off land".

Liberty's bell

Liberty's bell

Brown University

By Mrs. Madge Morris Wagner, San Diego, Cal. Poetry. Includes references to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield.

Liberty!

Liberty!

Brown University

Printed area: 16 x 26 cm. Announces a meeting in favor of free suffrage in Rhode Island. At end of text: Boston, Wednesday, May 18, 1842. First line: The Friends of Equal Rights are.

Liberty!

Liberty!

Brown University

Printed area: 16 x 26 cm. Announces a meeting in favor of free suffrage in Rhode Island. At end of text: Boston, Wednesday, May 18, 1842. First line: The Friends of Equal Rights are.

Liberty, dear liberty

Liberty, dear liberty

Brown University

words by Robert N. Ogden ; music by Arthur Olaf Andersen. For voice and piano. Caption title.

Liberty, a power among the nations: No. 4

Printed in red and blue within red and blue double line border. Prints two selections from the Columbiad; 42 lines beginning "From slavery then your rising realms to save" and 15 lines beginning "Purge all privations from your liberal code". At end of text: New York, June 10, 1861.

Liberty--all hail!: No. 3

Printed in red and blue within red and blue double line border. At head of text: Joel Barlow, in the eighth book of his Columbiad .. At end of text: New York, June 10, 1861. Quotations from Barlow's Columbiad attacking American slavery and foretelling punishment, with obvious application to the Civil War.