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

Venturi Salutamus

Venturi Salutamus

Brown University

Poetry in 4 six-line stanzas printed in dark green. At end of text: Littell's Living Age.

Venizelos

Venizelos

Brown University

Poem in 28 lines. Type-signed at end: By William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. April 1931 A.D.

Veni, sancte spiritus

Veni, sancte spiritus

Brown University

Poetry attributed variously to Robert II and Hermann von Reichenau; printed on ivory silk with fringed upper and lower edges. Title and first line the same. At end of text: Robert Rex Franciae (Beginning of XI. Century); below "*The seven gifts of the Spirit: 1. Wisdom; 2. Understanding; .. In lower margin: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Veni, sancte spiritus

Veni, sancte spiritus

Brown University

Poetry attributed variously to Robert II and Hermann von Reichenau; printed on ivory silk with fringed upper and lower edges. Title and first line the same. At end of text: Robert Rex Franciae (Beginning of XI. Century); below "*The seven gifts of the Spirit: 1. Wisdom; 2. Understanding; .. In lower margin: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Veni, sancte spiritus

Veni, sancte spiritus

Brown University

Poetry attributed variously to Robert II and Hermann von Reichenau; printed on ivory silk with fringed upper and lower edges. Title and first line the same. At end of text: Robert Rex Franciae (Beginning of XI. Century); below "*The seven gifts of the Spirit: 1. Wisdom; 2. Understanding; .. In lower margin: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Veil of ages

Veil of ages

Brown University

At head of text: Joe Wilson, author.--By Uma Guess.--Inspired by Liberty Day Demonstration at Los Angeles, Cal. At end of text: Copr. 1919 by Joe Wilson.--C.R. Res.

Vegetable ivory alphabet

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on gray paper within ribbon border with ornamental corners. Advertising on verso for "ivory" made from palm-nuts.

Vegetable ivory alphabet

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on gray paper within ribbon border with ornamental corners. Advertising on verso for "ivory" made from palm-nuts.

Vaseful of wild roses

Vaseful of wild roses

Brown University

Jennifer Barber. Printed in red and black on white paper. Poem in two stanzas of four lines each and one of three lines. "From Rigging the wind, winner of the 2002 Kore Press First Book Award. This was published for the author's reading at the Hotel Congress on April 22, 2003."--Colophon.

Vartan

Vartan

Brown University

Poetry. Type-signed at end: William Kimberly [i.e. Kimberley] Palmer. Place and date of publication from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.

Variations on a Hebrew amulet (1)

Printed on tan paper. Words of first poem enclosed in two rows of downward-pointing triangles. Suggested place and date of publication because his Variations on a Hebrew amulet (3) (HB39612) is signed "Jerome Rothenberg Milwaukee 1975."

Variations on a Hebrew amulet (1)

Printed on tan paper. Words of first poem enclosed in two rows of downward-pointing triangles. Suggested place and date of publication because his Variations on a Hebrew amulet (3) (HB39612) is signed "Jerome Rothenberg Milwaukee 1975."

Vaquero on horseback

Vaquero on horseback

Brown University

Page [4] is blank. At head of text: A year has passed us .. At end of text: Henry Goddard Leach. Vaquero 1903. Princeton, N.J., Dec. 3rd, 1900. Read after Vaquero's Thanksgiving Dinner, Dec. 4, 1900.

Vaquero on horseback

Vaquero on horseback

Brown University

Page [4] is blank. At head of text: A year has passed us .. At end of text: Henry Goddard Leach. Vaquero 1903. Princeton, N.J., Dec. 3rd, 1900. Read after Vaquero's Thanksgiving Dinner, Dec. 4, 1900.

Vaquero on horseback

Vaquero on horseback

Brown University

Page [4] is blank. At head of text: A year has passed us .. At end of text: Henry Goddard Leach. Vaquero 1903. Princeton, N.J., Dec. 3rd, 1900. Read after Vaquero's Thanksgiving Dinner, Dec. 4, 1900.

Vanity of the world

Vanity of the world

Brown University

Printed in red and black. Within red ornamental border inside which at left: Them that honor me I will honor; at top: I love them, at bottom: that love me; at right: Seek ye first the kingdom of God. At head of title cut of old man counting coins at table. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Vanity

Vanity

Brown University

Printed in blue and orange, within ornamental border. At head of text illustration of domestic scene. At end of text: No. 54.

Vanderbilt's universal epitaph

At head of text: Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Railroad Champion of America ... departed this life Jan. 4, 1877 ..

Valentines, favors, tallies, scores

Printed in red on heavy ivory paper. Rows of hearts at left and right; larger heart at top center. Title from first line. Poem in five lines advertising Dennen's stationery store on Grand River Avenue; town not named. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.