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

Frigid reception

Frigid reception

Brown University

John M. Bennett. At head of title illustration of television set. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Friends' Historical Association summer meeting motor pilgrimage: Springfield and Providence meeting houses, Delaware ...

Printed on off-white paper. At head of title seal of association; on pages [2]-[4] reproductions of photographs and drawing of early Quaker meeting-houses in Delaware County, Pa. Program for excursion to the Springfield and Providence meeting-houses in Delaware County, Pa. May 25, 1929; lists association officers and talks, including one on the Lownes family.

Friends of the Constitution! To the polls!

Printed area: 20 x 16 cm. Urges a vote for the proposed constitution (known as the Landholders' Constitution) First line: Two days yet remain for action. Improve them with.

Friends of long-ago

Friends of long-ago

Brown University

At head of text: For the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wheeler.

Friends of France

Friends of France

Brown University

words by Mary Gardenia ; music by John H. Densmore. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: flags of France and the United States

Friend

Friend

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertising brochure. Title & portrait of McCord on recto. Poem and advertising on verso.

Friday

Friday

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman washing window; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.

Freshets of Spring

Freshets of Spring

Brown University

F. Tiutcheff ; translated from the Russian by Isabel Florence Hapgood. Poem in twelve lines.

Fresh hip poetry

Fresh hip poetry

Brown University

Contains a review of Michael Joseph Phillip written by Richard Pflum Item is an advertisement to purchase Libretto For 23 Poems by Michael Joseph Phillips. Printed in black on cream paper.

Frenchy, come to Yankee land

by Sam Ehrlich, Con Conrad. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Minnie, shimme for me": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl thinking of her sweetheart in France / E.E. Walton.

Fremont songs: Campaign of Fifty-Six

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Includes text of 13 campaign songs, with names of some tunes, beginning with Opening (First line: Hark! to the cry, which loud and high)

Fremont and victory

Fremont and victory

Brown University

By Charles S. Weyman. To be sung to the tune: Suoni la tromba, from I Puritani. Text of song in five numbered eleven-line stanzas.

Fremont

Fremont

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Written by W.S. Morton, Esq. for the Qunicy Fremont Club.