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

Lamplighter's address

Lamplighter's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Illustration of lamplighter with in border at left of text.

Lamplighter's address

Lamplighter's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Illustration of lamplighter with in border at left of text.

Lamplighter's address

Lamplighter's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Illustration of lamplighter with in border at left of text.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamarck on buggery

Lamarck on buggery

Brown University

Author's name not on item. Publication date suggested because first poem is dated at end: 16 I 73.

Lafayette

Lafayette

Brown University

by Ted Shapiro and Wellington Cross. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Wellington Cross; cover design / Barbelle.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Ladies' choice

Ladies' choice

Brown University

Poetry in 5 eight-line stanzas advertising bluing. Removed from scrapbook with imprints dated from 1880 through 1900.

Lacking Ichor

Lacking Ichor

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1974"

Lacking Ichor

Lacking Ichor

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1974"

Labyrinthine vertigo

Labyrinthine vertigo

Brown University

Poetry printed in red on red paper; lower edge deckled. Typesigned at end of text: Keith Waldrop. Colophon in lower margin:: A free poem from The Alternative Press, 4339 Avery, Detroit, Michigan. Publication date supplied by bookseller when acquired in 1971.

Labor songs

Labor songs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.

Labor songs

Labor songs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.

La serpiente que se come por la cola

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.1 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/)

La pineta distrutta

La pineta distrutta

Brown University

Poetry with twelve line quotation from "Pulgatorio: Canto 28" at head. First published in newspaper in 1883. At end of text: T.W. Parsons.

La grippe

La grippe

Brown University

By Dr. Robert Wilson Blakeslee. Within gilded line border. At end of text: All rights reserved ... written Feb. 22, 1917, printed Mar. 12, 1917.