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

In Boston city there lived a maid

Within ornamental border. First line same as title. Five songs beginning with: In Boston city there lived a maid (First line)

In Bethlehem was born a babe. He saw

On handmade paper with deckled edges. Manuscript poem in two three-line stanzas. Title from first line. At end of text drawing in colored pencil of Nativity scene initialed in lower right corner E.C.S.[?] Brown University copy signed Beatrice; other similar poems from 1940s at Brown signed Beatrice on verso and B. N. on recto. B. N. lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s. Artist may be E. C. Spiero[?] who illustrated Nowell! God sends the mantled snow, by B. N. (Brown University copy HB33346 MA) Date from notation on Brown University copy.

In beautiful Montpelier

In beautiful Montpelier

Brown University

Edith Flint Keeler. French-fold; printed on double page in white on dark blue ground on white paper. On page [1] uncaptioned illustration of Vermont State House, signed: P.H. Thomas, 1934. Title from first line of poem in five lines on page [3] On page [2] prose information about State House.

In an old house beneath o'erhanging trees

Printed in in sepia calligraphy on tan card stock. Reproduction of photograph of entrance hall of house at left of poem. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text: Eugene and Willie Murphey, Augusta, Georgia, 1936.

In a pout

In a pout

Brown University

Printed on greenish paper. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a college classroom

In a college classroom

Brown University

Printed on double leaves. Printed on blue paper. Colophon at end on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder / Bread Loaf School of English / Middlebury, Vermont. First line: Dear, stranger souls who for an hour.

Improvement of time

Improvement of time

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text at head of title continues: Granted to [blank] for diligence and attention to study, and good behaviour in school. [blank] Poem in two four-line stanzas. Colophon: Sold by N.S. Simpkins & Co. Court street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Important state paper: "Extension."

Poetry and prose. To be sung to the tune: Jordan is a hard road to travel. Printed in two columns divided by a single line within border of type ornaments. Printed area: 27.1 x 20.2 cm. Humorous poem in twelve four-line stanzas. Date from general appearance of type and border. At head of text: Being a piece of the State Liquor Agency, which was blown by the late disastrous explosion into the State House, and from thence transferred to the Suffolk Jail .... Respectfully dedicated to the Massachusetts House of Representatives... First line: 'Tis conceded by all--and of course must be true.

Imperium in imperio

Imperium in imperio

Brown University

Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Author's name not printed on item. Suggested publication date because poem was first published in 1878 when Princess Louise's husband became governor general of Canada.

Immortal Lucretia Mott

Immortal Lucretia Mott

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 1937.

Immortal Jan Ignace Paderewski

Poem in three stanzas of different length. At end of poem: Dedicated to Col. Edward Mandell House, the friend of Poland, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1934, A.D.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.