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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

In memoriam Robert F. Kennedy

In memoriam Robert F. Kennedy

Brown University

Within mourning border. At head of text: A poetic eulogy in tribute to another great American martyr, Senator Robert F. Kennedy .... Includes poem entitled: Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, type-signed: Anthony Cama. At lower left names of officers of New England District 2 of the IUE AFT-CIO. Publication date from internal evidence.

In memoriam H.L.R

In memoriam H.L.R

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. Within mourning border. At end of text: J.F.W. Keene, 1862. Poem in five four-line stanzas.

In memoriam Edw. W. Kinsley: Post 113 GAR, May 30, 1892

In memoriam Edw. W. Kinsley: Post 113 GAR, May 30, 1892

Brown University

Cover title. Illustration of memorial marker with bust bearing legend "In memoriam Edw. W. Kinsley..." signed ... Reed on page [1]; bearded officer bearing standard marked "113" on page [4]. Program of funeral ceremony, printed in brown, on pages [2] and [3]. In lower margin on page [4]: Heliotype Printing Co., Boston.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Poetry. Within mourning border. At end of poem: M.A.F. At end of text: The above tribute ... was written by a friend on the death of Elmer F. Whitney, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Whitney, whose death occurred on Saturday, April 9, 1881. Place of publication suggested because the poem states the boy's grave is in Vermont.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Religious poem about a woman's death. Religious poem about a woman's death. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: L.E.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Poetry. Within mourning border. At end of poem: M.A.F. At end of text: The above tribute ... was written by a friend on the death of Elmer F. Whitney, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Whitney, whose death occurred on Saturday, April 9, 1881. Place of publication suggested because the poem states the boy's grave is in Vermont.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Religious poem about a woman's death. Religious poem about a woman's death. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: L.E.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Within mourning border. At head of text; In December, 1909, The Fishing Sloop, Georgiana, sailed out of Canarsie--with its crew and Mate Sims Johnson, to whom this poem is dedicated by the family.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Broadsheet; poem printed on verso of ten dollar Confederate bill, actual or facsimile. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the holders of Confederate treasury notes. Author's name not on item.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Within mourning border. Extracts from the obituaries in the Gazette and the Enquirer of sisters Emma Trafton Henderson and Fannie Lawrence Henderson who died Dec. 4 and 15, 1868. Includes poetic excerpts and at end poem in five four-line stanzas beginning: The light of their young lives went down.