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

Die wunderbare Geschichte v[on] Cocordia, eines Commendanten Tochter, welche 120 Jahren entführet war, und meinte es...

Printed in three columns. At head of second column wood-engraving of standing woman within border of type ornaments at sides and bottom. Poem in 29 numbered four-line stanzas. Name of heroine of poem "Cocordia" in title, "Concordia" in text. At end of text: Ephrata: Gedruckt Bey S. Baumann, 18[ ] Suggested range of publication dates, between 1810 and 1820, from dates when Baumann worked in Ephrata.

Die wunderbare Concordia, eines Commandanten Tochter, welche hundert und zwanzig Jahre entführet war, und meinte es ...

Printed in three columns. At head of text wood-engravings of vase, head within heart-shaped border of type ornaments, and another vase on shelf decorated with cherub's head; at end of text wood-engraving of helmeted goddess Athena and cherubs, inscribed A E I O U and Opera omnia. Poem in 29 four-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Die Ewigkeit

Die Ewigkeit

Brown University

Text in five numbered stanzas within border of type ornaments. Imprint information supplied by dealer.

Die Ermentrouta

Die Ermentrouta

Brown University

Attacks family of politicians, Dan, John, Jim, Billy and Samuel Ermentrout. Attacks family of politicians, Dan, John, Jim, Billy and Samuel Ermentrout. Cover title. Poem in 21 four-line stanzas in misspelled German with several English words. Place of publication suggested from mention of "Readingtown" in the "Keystone State"; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.