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.
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Items in this collection

Law--: and Be gone dull care!

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, No. 1, Market Square, corner of Merchant's Row, Boston. Second song in smaller type. At head of text: As sung by Mr. Andrews, with great applause, at the Boston Theatre. Deming used this address from 1829 to 1831.

Lauren Hale + RCJ Dance The 2002 Commencement Dance Concert

This concert featured four distinguished undergraduates who had created a body of work while at Brown. The seven pieces were a mix of retrospectives and new works. In her producer's note, Julie Adams Strandberg, addressed each of the dancers by name for their unprecedented contribution to the dance program as choreographers, teachers, performers, producers, and scholars, She also welcomed them into the extended family of the Brown dance alumni. The student choreographers for this show were: Lauren Hale, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Ryan Smith The student choreographers for this show were: Lauren Hale, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Ryan Smith. This concert featured four distinguished undergraduates who had created a body of work while at Brown. The seven pieces were a mix of retrospectives and new works. In her producer's note, Julie Adams Strandberg, addressed each of the dancers by name for their unprecedented contribution to the dance program as choreographers, teachers, performers, producers, and scholars, She also welcomed them into the extended family of the Brown dance alumni. The student choreographers for this show were: Lauren Hale, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Ryan Smith The student choreographers for this show were: Lauren Hale, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Ryan Smith. Stuart Theatre, Faunce House Lauren Hale + RCJ Dance The 2002 Commencement Dance Concert, Department of Theatre Arts records, OF.1Q.T1, Brown University Library 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/)

Late afternoon

Late afternoon

Brown University

On page [1] below illustration of deer and tree "Christmas 1948" Contains 5 poems.

Last words of her lover

Last words of her lover

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns in black on cream paper; each verse separated by type ornament. Colophon at end: Copyright... Contemporary Broadsides Number Three. Slug Press, ..., August 1979. 100 copies, numbered & signed. First line: The bald parrot said.

Last words

Last words

Brown University

Includes dedicatory note from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. "An undated, unpublished Whitman poem from manuscript now in the collection of Charles E. Feinberg."

Last words

Last words

Brown University

Includes dedicatory note from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. "An undated, unpublished Whitman poem from manuscript now in the collection of Charles E. Feinberg."

Last will and testament of Mrs. Jemima Brooks

Pages 2 through 4 numbered. On page [1] cuts of children on beach and advertisement for book. Poem on pages 2-4 with instructions to substitute names of lodge members for legatees. Advertisement for Good Templar literature on page 4. Date from internal evidence.

Last rose of summer

Last rose of summer

Brown University

Rule below text. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. By Thomas Moore; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Last night

Last night

Brown University

William Heyen. Edition of 500 copies Cream paper printed in black; bottom edge deckled. Text in facsimile of handwriting. Poem in six stanzas. Facsimile of Author's signature at end of text. Imprint information from dealer.

Landscape: poem and drawing

by Kirby Congdon. Broadsheet. Colophon: No. [blank] of 300 prints ... Typography, hand press production and silk-screen prints by Hors Commerce Press. Folded in triptych style. Title superimposed on small ill. in pink and black. On left panel, the title; on back panel, the drawing with blue tissue inlay; and on right panel, inside, the poem, and, outside, the colophon. First line: As a glimpse revealed of the far-ranging sea.

Land of mine

Land of mine

Brown University

words by Wilbur D. Nesbit ; music by James G. MacDermid. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Also published for: male, mixed and women's voices, orchestra, and band.