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

For the seasons and daughters we all are

A.H. [i.e. Anselm Hollo] Broadsheet printed in red on heavy peach paper in postcard format. Poemcard. Poem on recto type-signed: A.H., I.o.W., Dec66. On verso: Now at: 5 Pellhurst Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight (England) ....

For the seasons and daughters we all are

A.H. [i.e. Anselm Hollo] Broadsheet printed in red on heavy peach paper in postcard format. Poemcard. Poem on recto type-signed: A.H., I.o.W., Dec66. On verso: Now at: 5 Pellhurst Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight (England) ....

For the renewal of Christmas, 1945

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Initial bloc reproduced from a sixteenth century cutting by Geoffrey Tory. At end of text: Greetings from Theresa and Charles Abbott. Colophon on page [4]: Arranged by William Watson ..

For the boys over there

For the boys over there

Brown University

words by Gus. Kahn ; music by Egbert Van Alstyne. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two soldiers / Arthur William Brown; insignias of 8 service organizations.

For the best things

For the best things

Brown University

Printed in gold and colors within ornamental border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial block; gilt edges. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Facsimile author autograph at end of poem: Mary Cromwell Low. "Printed in Bavaria. No. 1073."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.