From twenty-six North Washington Square
Brown University
Title from 1st line. Pages [2, 4] blank. Christmas card.
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.
This collection has the following subsets:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
From the trenches to home sweet home: song
Brown University
words and music by Billy Nolan. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for America's Lauder: p. [6]
From the sea to the mountains
Brown University
Tune: Perry's victory
From the sea to the mountains
Brown University
Tune: Perry's victory.
From the preface to Milton, 1804-1808
Brown University
William Blake. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy white paper; rubricated initial. Poem in four four-line stanzas on page [1 Holiday greeting for Christmas 2004 and New Year 2005.
From the preface to Milton, 1804-1808
Brown University
William Blake. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy white paper; rubricated initial. Poem in four four-line stanzas on page [1 Holiday greeting for Christmas 2004 and New Year 2005.
From the preface to Milton, 1804-1808
Brown University
William Blake. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy white paper; rubricated initial. Poem in four four-line stanzas on page [1 Holiday greeting for Christmas 2004 and New Year 2005.
From The new book / a book of torture
Brown University
Michael McClure. Reproduced typescript. Headed in upper right corner: Paterson Society, 16 Parker Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Typesigned at end: Michael McClure. San Francisco, 1961.
From the New Bedford Standard, of Sept. 15, 1854
Brown University
Prose and poetry. Prose account of little girl's death followed by poem that impressed her before her illness. Type-signed at end of prose paragraph: W.T.H.
From the hills of "Shawfieldmont"
Brown University
From the hills of "Shawfieldmont"
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From the hills of "Shawfieldmont"
Brown University
Page 2, 4 blank. At end of text: W.A.B.
From the heart of a little girl
Brown University
Broadsheet printed in red and blue Poetry and prose; printed within double line border, advertising the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Illustration of girl facing empty easy chair in lower part of recto; in right lower margin on verso Metropolitan Life Building bearing legend: The light that never fails. At end of text on verso: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ... Colophon on verso below border: M.L.I. Co. Press (c)1073 LM ...
From the heart
Brown University
Wilma Adams Busch. At head of title illustration of flying bird carrying letter; illustration signed: W.A.B. Cover title. "Feb. 1955." Includes 12 poems, beginning with Poet, unmet.
From the heart
Brown University
Wilma Adams Busch. At head of title illustration of Jesus Christ signed: W.A.B. Cover title. "Apr. 1955." Includes 6 poems and prose passage; first poem entitled: Man of Sorrows.
From the heart
Brown University
Wilma Adams Busch. At head of title illustration of castle signed: W.A.B. Cover title. "Mar. 1955." Includes 14 numbered poems and introductory poem entitled Old saws resharpened.
From The gentle wind
Brown University
Ray Di Palma. Poetry. Printed in deep yellow and peach on yellow paper in several sizes of type; title at left, poem at right between vertical rules. Publication date information from dealer, Anacapa Books, Berkeley, Calif. First lines: Jean the foolishly passionate man.
From The gentle wind
Brown University
Ray Di Palma. Poetry. Printed in deep yellow and peach on yellow paper in several sizes of type; title at left, poem at right between vertical rules. Publication date information from dealer, Anacapa Books, Berkeley, Calif. First lines: Jean the foolishly passionate man.
From the cradle to the cross
Brown University
From sister to Ida
Brown University
From R.W. Saunders' window
Brown University
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title sketch by Anton Schutz.
From oyez
Brown University
Cover title. Publisher's announcement for the book: "In the fictive wish." Contains p. 7 from the book. White paper printed and illustrated in black.
From our house to your house
Brown University
Page [4] blank. French-fold; printed on double page; fold at top. Printed in red and green on white paper. On page [2] reproduction of photograph of man, woman and girl on porch. Poem in twelve lines. Author's name from ms. notation on Brown University copy; suggested publication date from acquisition date of same copy.
From old England
Brown University
Within single line border with corner ornaments.
From old England
Brown University
Within single line border with corner ornaments.
From ocean unto ocean
Brown University
Within single line border.
From nowhere to somewhere
Brown University
At head of title: Prologue.
From Nova Scotia suite
Brown University
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. On page [1] illustration of building captioned: Projected Memorial Chapel, Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in four numbered sections.
From Nova Scotia suite
Brown University
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. On page [1] illustration of building captioned: Projected Memorial Chapel, Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in four numbered sections.
From Nova Scotia suite
Brown University
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. On page [1] illustration of building captioned: Projected Memorial Chapel, Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in four numbered sections.