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 love is life

For love is life

Brown University

Title from first line. Within single line border, with multi-colored floral decoration. At end of text: Taken by permission from The toiling of Felix and other poems ..

For longer life

For longer life

Brown University

Poetry. Broadsheet used as matchbook cover; poem printed in black on off-white ground on inside (verso); text on outside (recto) printed in silver on black ground. On recto advertisement beginning: The cheer was supplied by Rye Liquor Store. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Brown University item acquired in 1949.

For liberty

For liberty

Brown University

words by M.E. Allen ; music by Leo Friedman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: flower basket and border design.

For Kenneth Patchen

For Kenneth Patchen

Brown University

[A.D. Winans] Light gray paper printed and illustrated in black. At head of title reproduction of landscape photograph. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. In lower left corner: From new book: by A.D. Winans Straws of sanity ready in March 1975, $3.

For Guillaume Apollinaire

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Author's name not on item. At end of text on page [3]: Riverrun, RD #4, Uncasville, Connecticut. December 1962. Author's name from dealer and from signature, "Bill," on Brown University copy.

For flag and country

For flag and country

Brown University

words by Erma Clarke ; music by Harry A. Dinsmore. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of American flag / ES Fisher.

For everyone: March 1

For everyone: March 1

Brown University

Wayne Clifford. Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed on yellow paper; vertically folded. Cover title. "Printed at the Coach House Press." First line: By wind's.

For Dixie and Uncle Sam: novelty march ballad

words by J. Keirn Brennan ; music by Ernest R. Ball. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "My rosary for you" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Nora Bayes / Saxony, N.Y.; cover design by Starmer.

For Dixie and Uncle Sam: novelty march ballad

words by J. Keirn Brennan ; music by Ernest R. Ball. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "My rosary for you" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Nora Bayes / Saxony, N.Y.; cover design by Starmer.

For Dixie and Uncle Sam: novelty march ballad

words by J. Keirn Brennan ; music by Ernest R. Ball. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "My rosary for you" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Nora Bayes / Saxony, N.Y.; cover design by Starmer.

For Dixie and Uncle Sam: novelty march ballad

words by J. Keirn Brennan ; music by Ernest R. Ball. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-[6] Cover illustration: photograph of an unnamed man; cover design / Starmer.