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

Germany

Germany

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Germany

Germany

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Georgianna Lovering: or, the Northwood tragedy!

Printed in three columns, divided by single lines. At head of text: But a few words to the reader... At end of text: Send me ten cents in an envelope, and I will send you five copies of the poem.... The accused murderer of Miss Lovering was Franklin B. Evans.

Georgianna Lovering: or, the Northwood tragedy!

Printed in three columns, divided by single lines. At head of text: But a few words to the reader... At end of text: Send me ten cents in an envelope, and I will send you five copies of the poem.... The accused murderer of Miss Lovering was Franklin B. Evans.

Georgianna Lovering: or, the Northwood tragedy!

Printed in three columns, divided by single lines. At head of text: But a few words to the reader... At end of text: Send me ten cents in an envelope, and I will send you five copies of the poem.... The accused murderer of Miss Lovering was Franklin B. Evans.

Georgianna Lovering: or, the Northwood tragedy!

Printed in three columns, divided by single lines. At head of text: But a few words to the reader... At end of text: Send me ten cents in an envelope, and I will send you five copies of the poem.... The accused murderer of Miss Lovering was Franklin B. Evans.

George Riley

George Riley

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area measures: 25.5 x 14.4 cm. Printed in two columns; wood-engraving of man walking at left of title; short double rule below title. English ballad mentions naval battle between Admiral Rodney and Comte de Grasse in 1782. Internal evidence, e.g. type and unusual spacing, suggests Joseph White as printer. He printed in Boston, first in partnership, then alone from 1788 to 1809; in Charlestown, Mass., from 1810 to 1826. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Shaw/Shoemaker, Am. Imprints, or Ford. First line: It was on one summers morning.

George Penfield Towle: an humble tribute

by William Hamilton Cline, an uplifter. Poetry. Printed on card stock within mourning border. Publication date from internal evidence. In lower margin: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House.

George Boyd & Sons' Queen table syrup

Broadsheet printed on glossy card stock. On recto colored illustration of two little girls holding dolls; text on verso. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Address of syrup manufacturer at end of text: 209 N. Water St., Philadelphia. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

George Bass, director, Rites and Reason Theatre

An informal photograph of George H. Bass. An informal photograph of George H. Bass. George Bass, director, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

George Bass with performers and staff, Rites and Reason Theatre

George H. Bass talks to the group during a break in rehearsal. George H. Bass talks to the group during a break in rehearsal. George Bass with performers and staff, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

George and Louis: and, the very excellent song called the Banks of the Daises

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with line of printers' ornaments at top and bottom: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street, Providence, where are kept for sale 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull was listed at above address from 1826 to 1836. Not in Ford or Checklist Amer. Imprints.

Geography of Vermont in rhyme!

At head of text: General description. Situation, boundaries, extent, face of the country, etc. By a lady of Unity -- a native of Vermont. Printed in two columns divided by double lines; double-line border at top and right. Date approximation from internal evidence.