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

Unidentified man no. 7 and unidentified woman no. 6 (with dwarfism?) (Edena, photograph 1)

Full-length image of unidentified man no. 7, vaudeville performer: Facing forward; standing with right hand on hip. Full-length image ofunidentified woman no.6, vaudeville performer: Facing forward; sitting on arm of chair; in formal attire (ornate gown and hair piece); Philadelphia, Penn.; undated Full-length image of unidentified man no. 7, vaudeville performer: Facing forward; standing with right hand on hip. Full-length image ofunidentified woman no.6, vaudeville performer: Facing forward; sitting on arm of chair; in formal attire (ornate gown and hair piece); Philadelphia, Penn.; undated 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/)

Unidentified man no. 6 and unidentified woman no. 5

Full length image of undentified man no. 6, African American vaudeville performer: Front facing; standing with left hand pointing upward and right hand hold cane; in formal attire (suit (light colored, long jacket), straw hat, checkered bowtie, and white shoes). Full length image of unidentified woman no.5, African American vaudeville performer: Front facing; standing with left hand holding umbrella; in formal attire (ruffled plaid dress, feathered bonnet, and dark flat shoes); [place of photo unidentified]; undated Full length image of undentified man no. 6, African American vaudeville performer: Front facing; standing with left hand pointing upward and right hand hold cane; in formal attire (suit (light colored, long jacket), straw hat, checkered bowtie, and white shoes). Full length image of unidentified woman no.5, African American vaudeville performer: Front facing; standing with left hand holding umbrella; in formal attire (ruffled plaid dress, feathered bonnet, and dark flat shoes); [place of photo unidentified]; undated 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/)

Unidentified man no. 4 (Hanson, photograph 1)

Full length image of unidentified man no. 4, African American: Sitting on chair; right hand holding hat; in formal attire (three-piece dark suit, white shirt, tie, fedora hat, spats, and leather shoes); Stockton, Calif.; undated Full length image of unidentified man no. 4, African American: Sitting on chair; right hand holding hat; in formal attire (three-piece dark suit, white shirt, tie, fedora hat, spats, and leather shoes); Stockton, Calif.; undated 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/)

Unidentified man no. 3

Unidentified man no. 3

Brown University

Headshot of unidentified man no. 3, African American: In formal attire (dark suit jacket, vest, white shirt, and tie) Headshot of unidentified man no. 3, African American: In formal attire (dark suit jacket, vest, white shirt, and tie) 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/)

Unidentified man no. 2

Unidentified man no. 2

Brown University

Headshot of unidentifed man no. 2, African American: In formal attire (dark suit jacket, white shirt, and tie); [place of photo unidentified]; undated Headshot of unidentifed man no. 2, African American: In formal attire (dark suit jacket, white shirt, and tie); [place of photo unidentified]; undated 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/)

Unicorn postcard series III

Printed in red, yellow, gray and black on heavy paper, one in facsimile of handwriting. Issued wrapped in lettered blue-gray paper band sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.

Unicorn postcard series II

Printed in black, red and yellow on heavy paper, one in calligraphy. Issued wrapped in paper band lettered in blue and sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.

Unicorn postcard series I

Printed in red, yellow and black on heavy paper; some in calligraphy. Issued wrapped in paper band lettered in red and sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.

Une famille d'Esquimaux

Une famille d'Esquimaux

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card. On recto colored illustration of Eskimo family in front of igloo. Title from caption of illustration, in French; all other text in English. On verso three poems advertising Good-Will Soap. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Under the Sun's bonnet

Under the Sun's bonnet

Brown University

Broadsheet. Ballad entitled: Fifty years after--a ballad for the Class of 1901, beginning: Say! What do we see by the dawn's early light.

Under the Sun's bonnet

Under the Sun's bonnet

Brown University

Broadsheet. Ballad entitled: Fifty years after--a ballad for the Class of 1901, beginning: Say! What do we see by the dawn's early light.

Under the Sun's bonnet

Under the Sun's bonnet

Brown University

Broadsheet. Ballad entitled: Fifty years after--a ballad for the Class of 1901, beginning: Say! What do we see by the dawn's early light.

Under the stars and stripes

text by Madison Cawein ; music by Frederick S. Converse. March for chorus: (SATB) and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. 8. Cover illustration: laurel-leaf border design / EW Browne. With (as Finale: chorus): Star-spangled banner / words by Francis Scott Key ; music by John Stafford Smith.

Under the snow

Under the snow

Brown University

Green noveau art floral design framing upper part of poem.

Under the roses

Under the roses

Brown University

Within double line border. At head of text: Song and chorus. Text of song in three eight-line stranzas and four-line chorus. At end of text: Words and music at Kimball's Music Rooms, Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Under the blue skies of France

words by Arthur J. Lamb ; music by Alfred Solman. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of building in landscape / De Takacs.

Under siege

Under siege

Brown University

Bruce Bennett. Printed in gray and orange on heavy ivory paper with deckled lower edge in postcard format. Line of blazing-sun type ornaments below title. Poem in two four-line stanzas.

Under a spreading chestnut tree

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building captioned: The village smithy. Title from first line of six-line stanza. Author's name not on item. Place of publication suggested because Brown University copy acquired with other similar postcards with illustrations of Portland and surroundings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.