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:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
Prose and poetry.
First battle to the Marne
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First battle to the Marne
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First battle to the Marne
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First Baptist Church, Bridgeport, Conn: Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937
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At head of text illustration of church signed: Walworth Stilson. Caption title. Order of exercises for services, including program of play entitled Release by D. C. Wilson, with calendar for week and announcements.
First Baptist Church, Bridgeport, Conn: Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937
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At head of text illustration of church signed: Walworth Stilson. Caption title. Order of exercises for services, including program of play entitled Release by D. C. Wilson, with calendar for week and announcements.
First Baptist Church, Bridgeport, Conn: Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937
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At head of text illustration of church signed: Walworth Stilson. Caption title. Order of exercises for services, including program of play entitled Release by D. C. Wilson, with calendar for week and announcements.
Printed in blue on grey paper. Contains program, poetry and songs.
Program with texts of hymns. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text within border: William Geddes, Printer No. 112 Chestnut Street.
First anniversary of the Broadway Congregational Sabbath School: Sunday evening, May 16, 1852
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Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Contains hymns.
First anniversary of the Broadway Congregational Sabbath School: Sunday evening, May 16, 1852
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Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Contains hymns.
First anniversary of the Broadway Congregational Sabbath School: Sunday evening, May 16, 1852
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Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Contains hymns.
First anniversary of Friendly Helper Lodge No. 107, I.O.G.T: Wednesday eve'g, February 7, 1883, at Cong'l Church, commencing at 7.30 o'clock
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Printed on heavy pinkish-tan paper within single-line border with ornamental corners on page [1], triple-line border at top and bottom of other pages. Includes text of two hymns.
First anniversary of Armistice Day November 11th, 11 a.m
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1 broadsheet.
Firewood is on the porch
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Title from first line. At head of text: Cyclus.
Fire escapes
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Illustration by Catharine Arthur.
Fire
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by Harry Barron. To be sung to the tune: Come home father.
Fire
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by Harry Barron. To be sung to the tune: Come home father.
Finny's parting blessing
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Within border of type ornaments. Satire on Charles Grandison Finney.
Finnegan's wedding
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Finland
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Page [4] blank.
Finkelgrams. No. 1
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1 broadsheet. Within triple line border printed in two columns. Advertisements on verso for books by Dr. Harry Finkel.
Finkelgrams. No. 1
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1 broadsheet. Within triple line border printed in two columns. Advertisements on verso for books by Dr. Harry Finkel.
Finkelgrams. No. 1
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1 broadsheet. Within triple line border printed in two columns. Advertisements on verso for books by Dr. Harry Finkel.
Finding the measure
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Announcement of publication of Finding the measure (poems 1965-1966)
Finding the measure
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Announcement of publication of Finding the measure (poems 1965-1966)
Find it so hard to write the how why & what about poesy at present
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Reproduced typescript. Title from first line. Headed at upper right: Paterson Society, 16 Parker Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Includes six lines of poetry beginning: Stars spewed from some cosmic hole. Typesigned at end: Gregory Corso. February 1961. Athens, Greece.
Finally a valentine: a poem
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by Louis Zukofsky. At end of text: Poem by Louis Zukofsky, October 23/63: "my last short poem for a long time" this finally a valentine will close or now closes my collected short poems to be called ALL. Colophon on verso: poet Louis Zukofsky.../typographer Edward Wright.../artist John Furnival.../printer Stephen Craig...
Fillmore campaign songs
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