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

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Poetry. Text on picture of scroll with holly leaves and red quill pen in gold inkwell; title in gold and red. Poem mentions Handy's book Father of the blues, published in 1941. At end of text signature: William C. Handy. First line: There wasn't much to livin'

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. On page [1] colored illustration of open book with candelabrum; on page [2] vignette of lantern and holly captioned: Holiday greetings 1959; on page [4] seal of the United Amateur Press Association. Poem in eight lines. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho in U.S.A. No. 2941."

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Printed in green on heavy white paper. Drawings of holly leaves and berries at upper right and lower right. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Sincerely, James H. McGregor, Nella B. McGregor. Pierre, South Dakota, December 25, 1944.

Greeting

Greeting

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. At end of text: Christmastide 1919.

Greenbacks!: new song for the times

words and music by Dan D. Emmett. William A. Pond & Co. was at this address between 1863 and 1877. Cf. Handbook of early American sheet music 1768-1889 / Dichter & Shapiro. For voice and piano. Verses 2-5 printed as text on p. 5.

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Greece

Greece

Brown University

French fold, printed on double page. On verso: This poem, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript on April 30, 1897, was one of Robert Frost's earliest published poems...

Greece

Greece

Brown University

French fold, printed on double page. On verso: This poem, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript on April 30, 1897, was one of Robert Frost's earliest published poems...

Greatest battle-song of all

lyrics by Jack Wilson and Harold Atteridge ; music by Sigmund Romberg. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical production: A World of pleasure. Advertisements for other songs: cover and p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of people dancing / Plummer.

Great Locofoco juggernaut: a new console-a-tory sub-treasury rag-monster

Mock banknote with poem and caricatures of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. "Good for a shave. Shinplaster 12 1/2 cents." "Eng'd by the Locofoco Shinplaster engraving Co." Engraved by D.C. Johnston--cf. Johnson, Malcolm. David Claypool Johnston, American graphic humorist, 1798-1865. Lunenburg, Vt., 1970, no. 55.

Great lionheaded

Great lionheaded

Brown University

Title from first line. Poetry in three lines; type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on yellow paper. In right lower 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 Artists, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Great law

Great law

Brown University

Border of type ornaments at top and bottom. At end of text: The Season's Greetings from John Holmes. 1947. Cream paper printed in deep green and red; bottom edge deckled; printed as a holiday greeting.

Great Lakes, or, The boys in navy blue

words and music by John Philip Sousa. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "To Captain W.A. Moffett U.S.N. Commandant, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes"--Cover. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of sailor. Photograph of John Philip Sousa: p. [6]

Great invention: A mill has lately been invented

1 broadsheet; text within double line border. Title from first line. At head of text rendering of the mill transforming old women into young ones. At end of text on verso below double rule: To Pedlars. Just published, the Musical Almanac, and for sale ... Office in the brick building, south west corner of the stone bridge, Hartford, Conn. J.M.K. Davis "Glimpses of early Hartford book publishing" lists Kappel as printing in Hartford by 1829. This edition not located in BAL.

Great Fair! Academy of Music, Philadelphia: An appeal on behalf of the "Soldiers' and Sailors' Home."

Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of title wood-engraving of two uniformed men, one lacking an arm and one a leg, captioned vertically at left and right sides: Relics of the war. Take good care of them. Appeals to firemen, tradesmen, manufacturers, banks, insurance offices and citizens to contribute money or goods to the fair opening Oct. 23, 1865; signed by members of committee headed by Robert P. King.