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

Gathered

Gathered

Brown University

Joanna McClure. Floral design below title. Cover title.

Gascon du nord

Gascon du nord

Brown University

Broadsheet. At head of text: Dédié au Kronprinz d'Allemagne. At end of text: Emile Villemin. (Parodie de la Garonne, de Gustave Nadaud)

Garfield's grave

Garfield's grave

Brown University

Written and sung by J. W. Kelley. Broadsheet; on verso part of program of songs and dances; item probably not complete. Within mourning border crossed at corners. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text: James A. Garfield's grave.

Gardening: a poem

Gardening: a poem

Brown University

by Vern Rutsala. French fold. Cut of brown and yellow plant on cover.

Garden lark and friars' frolic: for visiting publishers and editors

Printed in colors on glossy white card stock. On page [1] colored illustration of naked woman with man-headed snake; on page [2] flowers with cartoon heads at centers; on page [3] man at table and garden with jars; on page [4] singing friar. For celebration at "Friars' Monastery" April 25, 1927. Includes menu, poem and text of song.

Gandhi

Gandhi

Brown University

Printed in black on beige paper. Signed at the bottom right: "Brown University from William Kimberley Palmer"

Gal from the South

Gal from the South

Brown University

music composed by L.V.H. Crosby. For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: the Campbell Minstrels Dedicated to: Earl H. Pierce of the Christy Minstrels Additional verses: p. 4 [i.e. p. 5]

Gal from the South

Gal from the South

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections (Andrews ivy border in Wolf) Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Ha, ha, ha, yah, yah, yah. At end of text below curvilinear line within lower border: Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St. Andrews used this address between 1853 and 1859.

Gagaku

Gagaku

Brown University

Printed on green paper. At end of text: From a book of poems titled "Wild seed"

Fusion Conference!: Dow, Peck and Carter

Satirical poem about electioneering in Portland, Maine. Printed area: 24.9 x 18.2 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a single line; double rule below title, triple rule below subtitle; all within uniform border of type ornaments. At end of text: Moral.--Keep peace at home, or the family jars will get round town. [In capitals:] The big boy that told how Dad struck Mother.

Funny babies

Funny babies

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Tune of Yankee doodle.

Funeral ode

Funeral ode

Brown University

By Rev. Br. J. G. Forman. To be sung to the tune: Pleyel's hymn. Within single line border crossed at corners. Masonic poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates between author's twentieth birthday and his death.

Funeral ode

Funeral ode

Brown University

By Rev. Br. J. G. Forman. To be sung to the tune: Pleyel's hymn. Within single line border crossed at corners. Masonic poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates between author's twentieth birthday and his death.