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

Let it be when it wants to be left be

Bill Thomas. Bookmark printed on heavy tan paper. Vignette of American bison at end of text. Title from first line of two-line passage. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lest you forget acquaintances

Printed in dark blue on one side of blue envelope within double-line border. At head of title silhouette of woman in 18th-century costume writing at table; below poem dark blue shield inscribed in light blue: The Plaza Card Shop. Title from first line. Poem in eight-lines. Advertises the Plaza Card Shop, 114 Westminster St., Providence, R.I. Below envelope flap: Cohoes Envelope Co., Cohoes, N.Y. & New York City. Made in U.S.A.

Lest we forget

Lest we forget

Brown University

by James K. Shields. Printed on white paper in two columns on page [1], four columns on page [4]; pages [2]-[3] intended to be read vertically unfolded. Illustrations of scenes from film, chiefly on pages [2]-[3] Caption title. Advertising flier for temperance film. Suggested publication date from mention of of film showing Jan. 14, 1924.

Lest we forget

Lest we forget

Brown University

by James K. Shields. Printed on white paper in two columns on page [1], four columns on page [4]; pages [2]-[3] intended to be read vertically unfolded. Illustrations of scenes from film, chiefly on pages [2]-[3] Caption title. Advertising flier for temperance film. Suggested publication date from mention of of film showing Jan. 14, 1924.

Lesson

Lesson

Brown University

Guillevic ; translated by Teo Savory. Poetry. Printed in red and black on cream laid paper; poem at right of title. This copy was issued separately not as part of edition of 30 in portfolio Unicorn folio, Series 1, number 4 [part 5]

Lenten season

Lenten season

Brown University

At end of text: Next Christmas eve will mark the 100th anniversary of the first gathering ... out of which came the Central Methodist Church, the oldest M.E. Church in the world.

Lent, 1865

Lent, 1865

Brown University

Within single-line border on page [1] only. Cover title. Includes prayers, a psalm and a hymn with music.

Leghorn bonnet: together with, Corsets

Poetry; printed in two columns. Wood-engraving of bonnet at left of title. Internal evidence suggests Joseph White as printer. From 1788 to 1809, first in partnership, then alone, he printed in Boston, and from 1810 to 1826 in Charlestown, Mass. Specimens and spacing of letters are unusual and are used by him as late as 1815.

Legend of the Spanish moss

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. At left and right of text colored illustrations of trees hung with Spanish moss. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Legend of the Spanish moss

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. At left and right of text colored illustrations of trees hung with Spanish moss. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Legend and fulfilment

Legend and fulfilment

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: The season's greetings Elizabeth and Horace Westwood.

Legend

Legend

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. Printed on salmon-colored paper. Colophon at end, on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder, No. 11/ Bread Loaf School of English. Cover title.

Leavitt's poems of the White and Franconia Mountains, N.H

Nine poems of varying length dealing with sites and events in the mountain region, including railroads and hotels; first poem concerns disastrous landslide. Nine poems of varying length dealing with sites and events in the mountain region, including railroads and hotels; first poem concerns disastrous landslide. Not the same as another work issued in the same year with identical title information, with first line of first poem reading: Eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections on recto; blue lines on verso. At head of text: Published by Franklin Leavitt, Lancaster, N.H. Entered according to Act of Congress ....

Leavitt's poems of the White and Franconia Mountains, N.H

Text differs from that of earlier editions issued with the same title in 1885; however the subject matter and some of the poems remain much the same. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by Franklin Leavitt, Lancaster, N.H.

Leavitt's poems of the White and Franconia Mountains, N.H

Ten untitled poems dealing with sites and events in the mountain region, including a railroad and two landslides (the Willey and Lafayette mountain slides) Ten untitled poems dealing with sites and events in the mountain region, including a railroad and two landslides (the Willey and Lafayette mountain slides) Not the same as another work issued in the same year with identical title information, with first line of first poem reading: Eighteen hundred and eighty-five. Recto printed in two columns divided by single line, all within border of type ornaments; verso blank. At head of text: Published by Franklin Leavitt, Lancaster, N.H. Entered according to act of Congress in the year of our Lord 1885, by Franklin Leavitt ...