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

Had I prepared our social laws

Title from first line. Pages [3] + [4] blank. Christmas card. Within architectural frame, with rubricated initial and gilt decorations.

Ha, ha! don't you think you're brave?

Title from first line. At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of Union officer riding donkey. Four-line poem. A similar item at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

H'96

H'96

Brown University

At head of title: Harvard College Class of 1896.

H'96

H'96

Brown University

At head of title: Harvard College Class of 1896.

H'96

H'96

Brown University

At head of title: Harvard College Class of 1896.

H.A. Maxson, Turning the wood

Prospectus for a book. Text of selected poems on p. [2]-[3]; biography of author and imprint on p. [4] Printed in brown on ivory paper; decoration on p. [1] The first poem is preceded by a quotation from Sherwood Anderson.

Gunner Jim

Gunner Jim

Brown University

words by Harold L. Cool ; music by Arthur J. Daly. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4 Cover illustration: drawing of a battle at sea / Barbelle. Orchestration available.

Gunner Jim

Gunner Jim

Brown University

words by Harold L. Cool ; music by Arthur J. Daly. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a battle at sea / Barbelle. Orchestration available.

Gumbo chaff

Gumbo chaff

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text wood-engraving of dancing, fiddle-playing black man. Text, without the music, of song in 13 six-line stanzas. Imprint taken from ms. note on Brown University copy.

Gumbo chaff

Gumbo chaff

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text wood-engraving of dancing, fiddle-playing black man. Text, without the music, of song in 13 six-line stanzas. Imprint taken from ms. note on Brown University copy.

Gumbo chaff

Gumbo chaff

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text wood-engraving of dancing, fiddle-playing black man. Text, without the music, of song in 13 six-line stanzas. Imprint taken from ms. note on Brown University copy.

Gulls

Gulls

Brown University

Pages [2, 4] blank. Christmas card with author inscription.

Guerrilla

Guerrilla

Brown University

James Scully. Bookmark printed in blue on ivory paper. Poem in eleven two-line stanzas. Logotype of press below poem. "'Guerrilla' is from Santiago poems, available ... from Curbstone Press"--Colophon. Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

Guard the domestic corn

Guard the domestic corn

Brown University

Meridel LeSueur. Printed in yellow, green, black and white on heavy white paper in postcard format; text in white on black ground. Colored illustrations of partially-husked corn ears at top and bottom. Title from first line. Suggested publication date from date of film My people are my home mentioned on verso.

Growth of man like growth of nature

French fold; printed on double leaves. Title from first line. On cover: The Emily Dickinson House. Greetings for the New Year. Amherst College. 1962. Drawing of house at head of cover.

Growth

Growth

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Reprint from the University of California Chronicle, January, 1930. First line: Am I not taller? Since you saw me last.

Growing old

Growing old

Brown University

At head of text: Lines by Mrs. E.P. Offutt for her eighty-second birthday, Feb. 18th, 1895. Poem in four eight-line stanzas.

Growing old

Growing old

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Printed vertically in left margin on verso: Copyright July 1, 1916, by Westcott Wickham.

Ground breaking ceremony: St. John Fisher College Library

French-fold; printed on double page on yellow paper. At head of title on page [1] drawing of building; on page [2] seal of St. John Fisher College. On page [3] facsimile of handwritten poem with signature of James E. Kearney, Past Chancellor.