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.

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Items in this collection

In silence

In silence

Brown University

Facsimile of author's signature at foot of text.

In silence

In silence

Brown University

At head of text: In memoriam. Samuel Valentine Cole ... December 29, 1851 - May 6, 1925.

In recognition of your presence at the celebration of the sixty-eighth anniversary, I.O.O.F. in Bridgeport, Conn., th...

In recognition of your presence at the celebration of the sixty-eighth anniversary, I.O.O.F. in Bridgeport, Conn., the Committee of Arrangements present this as a souvenir of the occasion

Brown University

Printed on white silk ribbon fringed at top and bottom. Poem entitled Our order, written for the 68th anniversary celebration, by Brother S.B. Sumner, P.G. To be sung to the tune: Old oaken bucket. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because 1887 is 68 years after the founding of the Odd Fellows in the United States in 1819.

In praise of W.W

In praise of W.W

Brown University

From Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, as recorded by Lucien Price.

In praise of W.W

In praise of W.W

Brown University

From Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, as recorded by Lucien Price.

In praise of W.W

In praise of W.W

Brown University

From Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, as recorded by Lucien Price.

In Pettibone Hollow

In Pettibone Hollow

Brown University

At end of text: Nineteen copies printed by P. Johnston & set up in rigor extremis by V. Orton.

In Perkko's grotto

In Perkko's grotto

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

In Perkko's grotto

In Perkko's grotto

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

In Perkko's grotto

In Perkko's grotto

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

In our time

In our time

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed on orange paper. On p. [1]: Greetings of the season / Temple University Press.

In old Kentucky where the grass grows green

In old Kentucky where the grass grows green

Brown University

Postcard printed in multicolor on recto with text in black, and in blue on verso. Colored lithograph of the young Lincoln studying in front of hearth, captioned: "I'll study and be ready and maybe the chance will come"; small cut of log cabin at lower left. At upper left fourteen-line poem type-signed: Mary Eyre Wintersmith Robertson. Title from first line of poem. In lower left corner: c1915 by M.E.W.R. At bottom center on verso: M. surrounded by legend: Made by Metropolitan, Everett, Mass.

In my dream of the U.S.A.

In my dream of the U.S.A.

Brown University

words and music by Dean T. Wilton. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Respectfully dedicated to the U.S. Navy; and its Honorable secretary, Josephus S. Daniels"