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

Learn to smile

Learn to smile

Brown University

1 broadsheet Within border of type ornaments Contains advertising

Leap year!

Leap year!

Brown University

by L. D. Robertson. Poetry. On blue paper. Poem in 12 three-line stanzas. At head of title: Written for the Scottish Gaelic Society of New York. Publication date suggested by internal evidence and mention of Brooklyn Bridge in poem. First line: This is Leap Year! Here I leap to the conclusion.

Leaning into light

Leaning into light

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in green. Cover title. "Christmas 1965"--p. [1] On page [3] poem in three seven-line stanzas.

Lean hard

Lean hard

Brown University

Broadsheet. Biblical quotations at top, bottom, and printed vertically in left and right margins of recto and verso. On verso My prayer (First line: Let me not die before I've done for Thee) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lean hard

Lean hard

Brown University

Broadsheet. Biblical quotations at top, bottom, and printed vertically in left and right margins of recto and verso. On verso My prayer (First line: Let me not die before I've done for Thee) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Le retour de l'enfant prodigue

At end of text: Edition limited to 200 copies. White paper printed in brick red and black. Title printed in red.

Le petit bouton bleu

Le petit bouton bleu

Brown University

Includes poem and two prose pieces. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Le petit bouton bleu

Le petit bouton bleu

Brown University

Includes poem and two prose pieces. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Le petit bouton bleu

Le petit bouton bleu

Brown University

Includes poem and two prose pieces. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Le chant du sud

Le chant du sud

Brown University

Tune: Reine du monde, O France, O ma Patrie! At end of text: Dédié à J. Pemberton. Par son ami, Remo. Poem. First line: Réveillons-nous! Nôtre chère patrie.

Le bouffon des montagnes vertes

Folded into thirds for mailing; poem printed over length of recto. Printed in blue on yellow. Advertising brochure.

Le baron Pomme de Terre

Le baron Pomme de Terre

Brown University

by William Henry Taylor, author of "Canadian Seasons," etc. Within double-line border. English poem with French title. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: The Toronto World, March 2, 1917.

Le baiser baiser le

Le baiser baiser le

Brown University

D.r. Wagner. Two side-byside black quadrants; each containing shapes in white of South America and Africa in varying locations, lettered with either "Le" or "Baiser." At head of text: th uinta gargoyl # 10 / juli 75 / publisht bi rainbow resin... At end of text: D. r. Wagner. White paper printed in black.

Laying the corner stone of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: Providence, Rhode Island, June 24, 1870

Instructions on route of march, listing of program of the ceremony, purpose of monument, and description of design, with poem by B. DeWolfe composed for the occasion. Instructions on route of march, listing of program of the ceremony, purpose of monument, and description of design, with poem by B. DeWolfe composed for the occasion. Poetry and prose. Text printed in three columns. Cut of base of monument with Freemasons' symbols at head of first column.

Lay of the lightning

Lay of the lightning

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Within double line colored border. Col. illustrations with advertising captions at head of text. On verso advertisement of R.P. Hall's Galvano Electric Plasters.

Lay down your arms

Lay down your arms

Brown University

words by Louise Small ; music by Charles James. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: mothers of the world. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a Trojan soldier and allegorical figure of Peace / De Takacs.

Lawyer outwitted

Lawyer outwitted

Brown University

Text printed in three columns within ornamental borders with round cut of horseman in desert scene at head of text. At head of text: Showing how a young lady stole a young man and married him. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail by Hunts & Shaw, North East corner Faneuil Hall Market.

Lawrence disaster!

Lawrence disaster!

Brown University

composed by George G.G. DeWolfe, S.M.P. Printed in two columns divided by single broken line. At end of text: These lines were composed in twenty one minutes ..

Lawrence and Ludlow, together with, Jemmy slain in the wars

Poetry. Printed area measures 19.5 x 16.4 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail, corner of Merchant's Row & Market square -- Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as: No. 1 Faneuil Hall, south side. This edition not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.