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

From Nova Scotia suite

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

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 my study I see in the lamplight

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of painting of three girls captioned: Longfellow's children. A copy of the original painting, from life. Title from first line of four-line stanza from The children's hour. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Place of publication suggested because Brown University copy acquired with several similar postcards with views of Portsmouth and surroundings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

From Mexique's Gulf to Cuba's isle

Poem about Admiral Dewey and the Spanish-American War. Poem about Admiral Dewey and the Spanish-American War. Printed in gold in two columns on glossy card stock. At head of title colored embossed illustration of gold American eagle in front of crossed United States and Cuban flags. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas.

From Here be dragons

From Here be dragons

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on blue paper. On verso advertising matter for Here be dragons, by David Rogers. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

From her mother

From her mother

Brown University

Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. At end of text: Published by The French Relief Fund. The Indianapolis Branch of The American Fund for French Wounded.

From Astapovo, or, What we are to do

by Peter Whigham. Folded broadsheet tipped into dark gray folder with lettered yellow label pasted on front, light gray label containing colophon on back; separate leaf with reproduction of drawing laid in; poem printed on transparent paper with deckled left and right edges. At head of text: For Gary H. Brown. Typography by David Lawrence.

From a skyscraper

From a skyscraper

Brown University

by Allan Updegraff. Broadsheet. Reproduction of a painting by Anton Fischer on verso, entitled: A subway rush-hour crowd. Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

From a series of ten affirmation poems: number two

Poem printed in reddish-brown on mustard-colored card stock. At upper left abstract illustration in white. Title at upper right. Issued as part of a portfolio by 20 participants at a 1978 Port Townsend Poetry Symposium; imprint information from dealer.

From A little cemetery

From A little cemetery

Brown University

[Edition of 500 copies.] Cream paper printed in black in calligraphy; bottom edge deckled and stained brown. Author's name from ms. signature.

From "The birds of Killingworth"

Poetry in eight-line stanzas. Printed area measures 16 x 10 cm. Border of type ornaments and head and bottom of text; lower edge deckled. At head of text: Most of the action in this well-known poem of Longfellow's takes place on or near the Clinton Green [Sudbury, Mass.]... Stanzas 15 and 16 of The Birds of Killingworth; excerpted from Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Frog opera

Frog opera

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Heckers' Griddle Cake Flour on verso. Advertising card has colored illustration of singing frog on recto beneath poem. Date from internal evidence.

Frog opera

Frog opera

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Heckers' Griddle Cake Flour on verso. Advertising card has colored illustration of singing frog on recto beneath poem. Date from internal evidence.

Frisco catastrophe

Frisco catastrophe

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: To air of "Boston Fire" At end of text on page 3: Composed by S. Brooks Jr. U.S.F.S. West Virginia.