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 Christmas day

For Christmas day

Brown University

Thornwell Jacobs. French fold, printed on double page. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in black and burnt sienna; front cover photo; printed as a Christmas greeting.

For children's use we do advise

Poem advertising U.S.A. Grain Shoes. On verso: For children buy U.S.A. Grain goods. For sale by J.B. Banning, Deep River, Conn. With illustration in colors containing advertisement for McIntosh & Co., Springfield, Mass., designed by Aldine Co., Boston.

For best prospect of survival

N. van Hevelingen. Printed in red and green on heavy white paper within border of holly leaves and berries. Title from first line. Poem. Publication date from author.

For an hour on Christmas Eve

First verse of the poem, "Only an hour" Title from first line. Below woodcut on p. [1] in red and black: Christmas greetings, Gleeson Library Associates, 1967. Photograph of unicorn silver brooch at head of poem; At end of poem: Only an hour, Robinson Jeffers, 1940. On p. [2]: Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. On p. [4], at foot: The woodcut above the greeting is taken from the "Rime" of Bernardo Bellinzone, Milan, 1493. The drawing for the woodcut is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

For America and liberty

For America and liberty

Brown University

original text of "Varsity" by J. Fred Lawton ; music by Earl V. Moore ; words by L.L. Davis. For voice and piano. Caption title. "To the Sons of Old Glory of 1917." Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: torch of liberty.

Footprint: typical of P.W. San Francisco 2:III:77

Pages [2] and [4] blank. At head of title drawing of tray with teapot and cups, books and fruit in bowl. Cover title. Announces poetry reading March 24 in Student Union. "Graphics by Tomato Mafia Productions."

Football songs

Football songs

Brown University

Air: Marching through Georgia. Contains four songs.

Food thoughts

Food thoughts

Brown University

James Camp ; blergs by Jocelyn Camp. Poetry; issued folded; text on pages [2] and [3] meant to be read unfolded. Page [4] blank. Drawings by Jocelyn Camp throughout text.

Follow the flag

Follow the flag

Brown University

words by Elizabeth Zerrahn ; music by Constance Zerrahn Bradley. For voice and piano. Caption title.

Follow the boys

Follow the boys

Brown University

lyric and music by Augustus Barratt. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical comedy: Little simplicity. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a girl with a bonnet / Barbelle.

Follow me to Germany: (and victory) : song

lyric by William J. Hart ; music by Edward G. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] War slogans: p. 2-[4] Cover illustration: moustached U.S. soldier with cane.

Folks need a lot of loving

by Strickland Gillilan. 1 broadsheet. Includes advertising (on verso) for three of Gillilan's books. Dated from publication dates of books advertised. Printed in brown on sepia.

Folk medicine

Folk medicine

Brown University

Poetry. Reproduced from typescript; printed in blue on rainbow colored paper. At head of title: th uinta gargoyl #5 may 75. Type-signed at end: Victoria Dalkey, March, 1967. At bottom on left: publisht bi rainbow resin, 815 18th st., #4, sacramento, ca95814; on right: Moon Graphics, 1219 Twentieth Street, Sacramento.