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

Hallowe'en fortune rimes

issued by the Entertainment Department of the Ladies' home journal. Printed in three columns.

Hallowe'en fortune rimes

Poetry. Printed in three columns. "Issued by the Entertainment Department of The Ladies' Home Journal. Copyright, 1914, by The Curtis Publishing Company." At head of text: Nonsense rimes for the men. Thirty-two four-line stanzas. First line: In foreign lands you will reside.

Halcyon days

Halcyon days

Brown University

Within decorative border printed in purple and brown on beige paper. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman (1888) At end of text: A Christmas greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1977.

Hail Columbia, happy land!

Broadsheet containing text of songs without music. Printed area: 29.3 x 13.8 cm. The title song is printed above the text of two other songs separated by a curvilinear line, all within a border of type ornaments. On verso, within border of type ornaments, advertisements for boots and shoes for sale by Mauldin & Co.'s, No. 16 Town Street, Columbus, Ohio. First verse, 3rd line of the Marseilles hymn reads: Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary. Cf. Wolf, E. Amer. song sheets, 1850-1870, no. 1385.

Hail Columbia, happy land!

Broadsheet containing text of songs without music. Printed area: 29.3 x 13.8 cm. The title song is printed above the text of two other songs separated by a curvilinear line, all within a border of type ornaments. On verso, within border of type ornaments, advertisements for boots and shoes for sale by Mauldin & Co.'s, No. 16 Town Street, Columbus, Ohio. First verse, 3rd line of the Marseilles hymn reads: Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary. Cf. Wolf, E. Amer. song sheets, 1850-1870, no. 1385.

Hail Chautauqua!

Hail Chautauqua!

Brown University

Written and composed by Charles C. Miles. In verse. At end of text: Copyright 1919 Charles C. Miles. Printed area: 17.5 x 10.5 cm.

Hail and farewell!

Hail and farewell!

Brown University

Thomas Williams Bicknell Poem, signed: Thomas Williams Bicknell, January 1, 1901. Caption title.

Hail and farewell!

Hail and farewell!

Brown University

Thomas Williams Bicknell Poem, signed: Thomas Williams Bicknell, January 1, 1901. Caption title.

Hail and farewell!

Hail and farewell!

Brown University

Thomas Williams Bicknell Poem, signed: Thomas Williams Bicknell, January 1, 1901. Caption title.

Haiku for my father

Haiku for my father

Brown University

by Gerry Shikatani. Colophon on p. [4]: poem #2 the Missing Link Press ... November 1973.

Haibun: (March 3, 2005)

Haibun: (March 3, 2005)

Brown University

Keith Kumasen Abbott. Printed on heavy white watermarked paper. Prose and poetry. Includes three-line poem beginning: The first mosquito of spring.

Hague

Hague

Brown University

Poetry. At end of text: Stroller, 1898.