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

Evening out

Evening out

Brown University

At end of text: Paula Grieg / the Valley of the Oriental Heather / New York.

Evening chimes

Evening chimes

Brown University

Contains fourteen songs, beginning with: Our greeting [first line: Dear friends, we're glad to meet you] Within double line border

Evening bell

Evening bell

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in dark green and red on heavy white paper. "Yule Tyde greetings from Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb of Abbey Dawn 1961."

Evening bell

Evening bell

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in dark green and red on heavy white paper. "Yule Tyde greetings from Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb of Abbey Dawn 1961."

Evening

Evening

Brown University

Broadsheet. On verso wood-engraving of boy pulling girl in wagon. On recto poem in five four-line stanzas. Text on verso: Reward of merit. This certifies, that [blank] for diligence and attention to studies, and good conduct in school, merits my approbation and esteem. [blank] Instructor. At end of text on recto below curvilinear line: Sold by Geo. P. Daniels, 5 Market-st. Providence. Suggested range of publication dates between time when Daniels started printing in Providence and his death.

Even song

Even song

Brown University

Charles Philbrick. Printed on heavy gray paper in calligraphy in postcard format. "Calligraphy by Thomas Sgouros." Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Ev'ry Sammy needs his smokin' over there

words by Richard W. Pascoe ; music by Monte Carlo & Alma M. Sanders. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Eddie McGrath, at the Broadway Strand Theatre, Detroit, Mich. "Dedicated to the U.S. Soldiers Tobacco Fund." Statements about the tobacco fund: p. [4] Cover illustration: cover design of soldier smoking by Lew W. Tower; photograph of Eddie McGrath. Photograph of the Broadway Strand Theatre, Detroit, Mich.: p. [4]

Ev'ry girl is doing her bit to-day

written by Clifford Harris and Valentine ; music by Jas. W. Tate. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Everything, at the New York Hippodrome. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] War slogans: p. 2. Cover illustration: drawing of people dancing on stage, a soldier and a sailor.

Etudiant raseur

Etudiant raseur

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, in verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimposed on colored lithograph of boy spreading wax from pail labeled: Cirage onctueux on another boy's face. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso poem in three four-line stanzas advertising Sollers shoes, beginning: This 'prentice, finding something lacking. Title and label on recto in French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Etrenne: offerte aux abonnés de l'Athénée

Poem claims to be translation of song of poor school teacher in southern Italy under Bourbon rule. Poem claims to be translation of song of poor school teacher in southern Italy under Bourbon rule. Poetry. Within single-line border in red with ornamental corners. Cover title. Type-signed at end: Alfred Mercier. Nouvelle-Orléans, 1er Janvier 1888.

Ethel Moyer

Ethel Moyer

Brown University

Within blue ornamental border. At head of text: The heroism displayed by Mrs. Ethel Moyer, a trained nurse at the Hetch Hetchy Hospital ..