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

Four poems of departure

Four poems of departure

Brown University

by Ezra Pound. 1915. Printed in golden-brown and black on heavy white paper. At center of page [1] vignette in golden brown of flower basket. "The poems are here reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Limited, from 'Collected Shorter Poems', as a memorial tribute to the most erudite poet of modern times" Edition of 200 numbered copies. These poems originally published in 1915.

Four leaf clover

Four leaf clover

Brown University

Title from first line. Pages [3] + [4] blank. Birthday card. At end of text: M.E.S.

Four images for death

Four images for death

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: Copyright 1971 by Robert Bly. Published free by the "Slow Loris" Press ... Printed ina limited edition of 200 copies of which 25 are numbered and signed by the author. Printed in brown by Stanley J. Malinowski on buff paper.

Four images for death

Four images for death

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: Copyright 1971 by Robert Bly. Published free by the "Slow Loris" Press ... Printed ina limited edition of 200 copies of which 25 are numbered and signed by the author. Printed in brown by Stanley J. Malinowski on buff paper.

Four images for death

Four images for death

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: Copyright 1971 by Robert Bly. Published free by the "Slow Loris" Press ... Printed ina limited edition of 200 copies of which 25 are numbered and signed by the author. Printed in brown by Stanley J. Malinowski on buff paper.

Found

Found

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of woman reclining beside stream below and at right of text; on verso testimonial dated July 5, 1866, from chemist who analyzed Sozodont sample for Messrs. Hall & Ruckel, and directions for using liquid dentifrice Sozodont. Poem in three four-line stanzas about Sozodont on recto. Publisher's name and publication date from testimonial on verso.

Forward! March! Columbia's calling

words & music by S. Joseph Quinn. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the Knights of Columbus"--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of "Columbia" and soldiers, Knights of Columbus insignia.

Forward march!: Mississippi volunteers

words by Robert Levenson ; music by George L. Cobb. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers standing at attention / Starmer.

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness

Brown University

Reprint from the University of California Chronicle, April, 1928.

Forget-me-not mottos. No. 1

by the Rev. Lorenzo Dow, Jr. Printed in six columns. At head of text: Dedicated to the members of his congregation. Group of 168 four-line poems about love and courtship, some humorous; columns alternate between poetry for gentlemen and ladies.

Foreword

Foreword

Brown University

At end of text: Providence, R.I., September 6, 1924, September 6, 1834. Page [4] blank.

Foreword

Foreword

Brown University

At end of text: Providence, R.I., September 6, 1924, September 6, 1834. Page [4] blank.

Foreword

Foreword

Brown University

At end of text: Providence, R.I., September 6, 1924, September 6, 1834. Page [4] blank.