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

Effects of love: Battle of the Shannon and Cheasapeak

Printed in two columns, one poem in each column. At head of second column wood-engraving of boy and large dog in oval border. At head of text: J. Catnach, Printer; at head of text in second column between wavy lines: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Effects of love: Battle of the Shannon and Cheasapeak

Printed in two columns, one poem in each column. At head of second column wood-engraving of boy and large dog in oval border. At head of text: J. Catnach, Printer; at head of text in second column between wavy lines: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Edison

Edison

Brown University

Twenty-four line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Monseigneur John Francis Conlin, a true patriot, a loyal son of the Church and a brother of all mankind by William Kimberley Palmer, Chicopee, Massachusetts, U.S.A. August 1933 A.D.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Joel Tyler Headley by William Kimberley Palmer, Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. September 1931 A.D.

Eddie Kelly

Eddie Kelly

Brown University

Headshot of Eddie Kelly, African American vaudeville perfomer (male): Face piercing through San Francisco newspaper, The Bulletin, with headline "We Get Panama Fair"; San Francisco, Calf., circa 1911. Headshot of Eddie Kelly, African American vaudeville perfomer (male): Face piercing through San Francisco newspaper, The Bulletin, with headline "We Get Panama Fair"; San Francisco, Calf., circa 1911. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Eddie Harold

Eddie Harold

Brown University

By Rev. James B. Dunn. At head of title cut of boy and men in saloon. At upper right corner of page [1]: No. 14. Caption title.

Echo

Echo

Brown University

Richard Kostelanetz. Printed in white on heavy paper that is glossy black on recto, white verso in postcard format. Poem is word "Echo" in letters of varying shape.

Eastward the armies

Eastward the armies

Brown University

Pages [1, 4] blank. Advertising flyer. At end of text: reduced sample page of book with poem by Everson, illustration in blue by Tom Killion. First line: War has always been an inspiration for the poet.

Eastward the armies

Eastward the armies

Brown University

Pages [1, 4] blank. Advertising flyer. At end of text: reduced sample page of book with poem by Everson, illustration in blue by Tom Killion. First line: War has always been an inspiration for the poet.

Eastward the armies

Eastward the armies

Brown University

Pages [1, 4] blank. Advertising flyer. At end of text: reduced sample page of book with poem by Everson, illustration in blue by Tom Killion. First line: War has always been an inspiration for the poet.