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

La cité de Québec à son Altesse Royale le Prince de Galles: Ode

composée par L. J. C. Fiset, écuyer, et publiée sous les auspices de la Cité par l'entremise de la Société Typographique de Québec. Printed on green silk in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title, above upper border, cut of plumed crown and garter, with scroll inscribed: Ich dien. Poem in 14 six-line stanzas in three sections headed: L'attente, L'arrivée and L'adieu. Date from date of Edward VII's visit to Canada as Prince of Wales.

La cité de Québec à son Altesse Royale le Prince de Galles: Ode

composée par L. J. C. Fiset, écuyer, et publiée sous les auspices de la Cité par l'entremise de la Société Typographique de Québec. Printed on green silk in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title, above upper border, cut of plumed crown and garter, with scroll inscribed: Ich dien. Poem in 14 six-line stanzas in three sections headed: L'attente, L'arrivée and L'adieu. Date from date of Edward VII's visit to Canada as Prince of Wales.

L' envoi

L' envoi

Brown University

Printed on gold paper.

L' envoi

L' envoi

Brown University

Printed on gold paper.

L' autre lumiere

L' autre lumiere

Brown University

Cover: Season's Greetings. Within single line border, beneath cut of soldier with child. Translation of poem by Agnes Lee on p. [3]: The other light.

L' Appel du drapeau

L' Appel du drapeau

Brown University

Within single-line border. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas, with four-line chorus. Suggested place of publication from notation on Brown University copy referring to "Mrs. Westfeldt of N.O." as author of English original and French translation. Suggested range of publication dates because poem refers to war, probably World War I or the Spanish-American War.

Kunou haahaa aku me ke aloha ia 1886

Printed in red and blue in three columns divided by single lines within ornamental border. Printed vertically inside top border: Na himeni iubile o ke alii ka moi kalakaua; inside left border: Aloha kalikimaka; inside right border: Aloha makahiki hou. At end of first column: Novemaba 16, 1836; at end of third column: Novemaba 16, 1886. Includes text of five songs, beginning with: Pela kapu o Kakae.

Konvergence, Rites and Reason Theatre

Publicity photograph with the faces of a man and a woman. The man is probably George Bass. Publicity photograph with the faces of a man and a woman. The man is probably George Bass. Konvergence, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, 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/)

Konvergence, Rites and Reason Theatre

Publicity photograph with the faces of a man and a woman. The man is probably George Bass. Publicity photograph with the faces of a man and a woman. The man is probably George Bass. Konvergence, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, 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/)

Komos

Komos

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double page. Poetry. Cover title. Type-signed at end of poem: Michael McClure. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and from date of acquisition of Brown University copy.

Koelem l le Pape

Koelem l le Pape

Brown University

Kalispel version by Rev. Jos. Post, S.J., De Smet, Idaho. Broadsheet printed in one and two columns on recto, one column on verso within ornamental border on verso. On recto four numbered stanzas in language of Kalispel tribe of Indians with explanation of their previous and contemporary locations. On recto advertisement for musical arrangements for Long live the Pope with words by Rev. H.T. Henry and music by H.G. Ganss, published in many languages.

Kochani rodzice

Kochani rodzice

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Kochana żono

Kochana żono

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Pages [2]-[3] ruled. Printed in purple on white paper. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text. At end of text on page [1]: Copyright, 1911, by H. Jaworowicz, Milwaukee, Wis.

Kochana żono

Kochana żono

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Pages [2]-[3] ruled. Printed in purple on white paper. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text. At end of text on page [1]: Copyright, 1911, by H. Jaworowicz, Milwaukee, Wis.

Kochana Zono

Kochana Zono

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2] and [3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper part of text on left and top. At end of text on page [1]: Copyright, 1911, by H. Jaworowicz, Milwaukee, Wis.

Know thyself

Know thyself

Brown University

written by J.W. Morse. At head of text: Is there not a cause?" "Try all things and hold fast that which is good." "To err is human, to forgive Divine ["]

Know thyself

Know thyself

Brown University

written by J.W. Morse. At head of text: Is there not a cause?" "Try all things and hold fast that which is good." "To err is human, to forgive Divine ["]