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

Unseen buds

Unseen buds

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red on buff paper with brown decorated initial; vine ornamentation on p. [1, 3] Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman (1891)

Unseam, unseen

Unseam, unseen

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy blue-gray paper in black on recto, blue on verso; information about publisher on verso. Title from first line of poem. Typesigned at end of poem: Michael Basinski.

Unlike any other

Unlike any other

Brown University

Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Includes drawings of seated man, standing woman, and couple, and portrait of seated man captioned: Richard Golden, as "Old Jed Prouty." Advertisement for Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, for internal and external use, contains poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Unknown: a Memorial Day poem

by William T. Perkins. Printed in two columns divided by double line of type ornaments within outer and inner borders of type ornaments. Between outer and inner borders at top Civil War battle scene signed: C.H. Dickson '15; at left scenes of Civil War soldiers and women; between columns vignette of tombstones. Poem in five stanzas of varying length.

Unknown soldiers

Unknown soldiers

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Notecard printed in dark red on heavy peach paper. At each upper corner on page [1]: U S. Poem in ten two-line stanzas. In lower margin on page [1]: Ruth Landshoff Yorck / 21 Cornelia Street / NYC 14. Suggested publication date from "Happy 66" from author's autographed note on Brown University copy.

Unity

Unity

Brown University

Printed in black, grey & blue. Photo of building & flagpole with hoisted American flag at right of text. Red emblem with three blue stars at end of text column.

United we stand

United we stand

Brown University

lyrics and music by Fred. E. Holly. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [6] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam's face / c. 1917 by C.H. Forbell.