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:

Items in this collection

For smoking divines

For smoking divines

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

For smoking divines

For smoking divines

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

For Sarah Young

For Sarah Young

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy tan paper in postcard format. At left of text on recto illustration of woman's head. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. On verso information about Ventura's book The Mollyhawk poems. Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

For reflection

For reflection

Brown University

Text within architectural frame, printed in brown on cream paper. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Carl Culver Wiggin.

For Old Glory: (Uncle Sam, we are preparing) : official march song (one step)

For Old Glory: (Uncle Sam, we are preparing) : official march song (one step)

Brown University

words & music by Walter Irving. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: the Chief Scouts. Letter from C.W. Doyen to the editor of the New York sun: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a Naval Scout and a Marine Scout with a U.S. flag / E.H. Pfeiffer; photographs of Admiral George Dewey, General George Barnett, Daniel M. Bedell.

For Mrs. Jane Cady

For Mrs. Jane Cady

Brown University

Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

For Mrs. Jane Cady

For Mrs. Jane Cady

Brown University

Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

For Mrs. Jane Cady

For Mrs. Jane Cady

Brown University

Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.