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

How did you feel, comrades?

Title same as first line. Page [4] blank. Page [1]: Massachusetts Association of Union Ex-prisoners of war. The Twentieth Annual Reunion ..

How dear to my heart is the Roller Skate Corset

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto uncaptioned lithograph of elaborately dressed woman signed M.M. & O. Lith., N.Y. On verso poem in three ten-line stanzas advertising corsets. Title from first line on verso. At end of text on verso: For sale by Geo. E. Wheat, Nashua, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

How dear to my heart is the Comfort Hip Corset

Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed on tan cardboard. On verso: sepia lithograph of bust and one arm of bejeweled woman; at lower left: M.M. & O. Lith., N.Y.; on recto: parody in three stanzas of The old oaken bucket. Title from first line; imprint date from internal evidence. At end of text: For sale by Miss Alice Beaman, Antwerp, N.Y.

How beautiful it is

How beautiful it is

Brown University

At end of text: Robinson Jeffers. Printed in black and red in calligraphy. Publication date supplied by dealer.

How beauteous are their feet

Title from first line of hymn. Text of hymn in six four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?: (after they've seen Paree)

words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young ; music by Walter Donaldson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "That tumble-down shack in Athlone", printed in brown ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers having a good time in Paris, printed in brown ink / Barbelle.

Houses

Houses

Brown University

Poetry; type-signed at end: Sam Thomas, 1509 1/2 Kains, Berkeley. Mimeographed typescript on light blue paper. At head of title in upper margin: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]"). This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Hot corn

Hot corn

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus also beginning: Come buy, come buy hot corn. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Hot codlins: and, The transported Irish boy

Wood-engraving of garden scene with boys and old man, illustrating the story of the breaking of the sticks, at head of text. Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail, by J.G. & H. Hunt, at N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. The Hunts were listed at this address in 1834.

Hosanna to Jesus

Hosanna to Jesus

Brown University

Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of poem above short rule wood-engraving of zither sprouting leaves, with quotation from Apostle Paul beneath.

Horizon of life

Horizon of life

Brown University

Page 2: Alexander David Winton departed this life August 10, 1951

Horiconians! Here, today

Poetry. Printed on blue-gray paper in two columns. Title from first line of poem. At head of text within brackets: The following poem was read by the author, Mr. Cyrus Butler, of New York, at the First Annual Festival of the "Horicon Club," of Lake George, held on Agnes Island, August 27, 1878.--Ed.