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

Hasidic exclamation on Stevie Smith's poem "Not waving but drowning."

Page [2] blank. At end of text on p. [4], colophon: First printing of a poem from the sequence, Letters to the great dead, by Jonathan Williams, on the occasion of his reading at the University of Connecticut ... Typography & design by To the Lighthouse Press, Provincetown .. Imprint information by Curbstone Press. 1 of 300 copies.

Harvey W. Scott editor: a memorial

Tribute lauds E.S. Scott's development as human being, and achievments as newspaperman and editor of the Portland Oregonian. Tribute lauds E.S. Scott's development as human being, and achievments as newspaperman and editor of the Portland Oregonian. by Edmond S. Meany. Cover title. Page [4] blank. Text on page [1] within rule border. Poetry in four numbered stanzas of varying lengths on pages [2] and [3] "From the Portland Oregonian, of which paper Mr. Scott was the editor from 1865 until his death in 1910. Reprinted by the University of Washington daily."

Harvest time

Harvest time

Brown University

Within ornamental border and decorated initial. At head of title: Matt. 13:24-30 .. At end of text: Copyright 1918 ..

Harvest hymn

Harvest hymn

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Martyn. Text of hymn in three eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Harvard songs

Harvard songs

Brown University

Broadsheet containing text of eight songs, beginning with On to victory. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Harvard songs

Harvard songs

Brown University

Broadsheet containing text of eight songs, beginning with On to victory. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Hartwell's narration

Hartwell's narration

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments; printed in three columns divided by single rules.