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

I am the people--the mob

First two lines of Sandburg's poem of the same title. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Title from first line. On p. [4]: "God"--from the original serigraph by Sister Mary Corita, IHM. Expressways, Old Greenwich, Conn. Printed in colors on card stock.

I am sorry sir, this is the end

D.R. Wagner. Broadsheet printed on heavy yellow paper. On recto illustration of couple dancing; on verso vignette of leaves. Poem on verso. "A book for Barb, collected love poems by D.r. Wagner will be published by the Undermine Press ...." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

I am neutral: humoreuse

I am neutral: humoreuse

Brown University

words by Thos. M. Proctor ; music by Frank V. Weaver. For voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: country road / E.S. Fisher.

I am coming

I am coming

Brown University

Philip Lamantia. Publisher's flier for Touch of the marvelous, by Lamantia.

I ain't got weary yet!: (Je m'en fais pas encore)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [English] words by Howard Johnson ; music by Percy Wenrich. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for 3 songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: 4 scenes with soldiers. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

I ain't got weary yet!

I ain't got weary yet!

Brown University

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Percy Wenrich. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Good morning, Mr. Zip-zip-zip" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: 4 scenes with soldiers. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

I ain't got weary yet!

I ain't got weary yet!

Brown University

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Percy Wenrich. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Good morning, Mr. Zip-zip-zip" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: 4 scenes with soldiers. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

Hypocrisy exposed

Hypocrisy exposed

Brown University

At head of text: Calculated for the meridian of Rockport, but will answer for any part of fallen Christendom. At end of text: Given for the people by grace to Sylvanus Brown. Rockport, July 22d, 1841.

Hymnus in festo Nativitatis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi

Page [2] blank. Printed in red and black on ivory paper. Initial blocks; cut of mistletoe stem at left and above text on page [3] Cover title. Text of Latin carol in four six-line stanzas. Colophon on page [4]: Hoc Carmen Gulielmus Harmanus van Allen scripsit, Franciscus Watts Lee privatim impressit, Amor amicis dilectissimis mittit, fest. Nativ. D.N.J.C., mdcccxcvi. Laus Deo at Beatae Virgini Mariae. Suggested place of publication from postmark on Brown University copy.