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.
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Items in this collection

Did you pray?

Did you pray?

Brown University

Stanley Carter. Printed in blue on glossy white paper within border of type ornaments. At each side of title drawing of kneeling child in pajamas. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Did I say yes, did I say no

James Purdy. Printed in dark green on gray paper. Title from first line. Prose poem. "Printed by Stuart McCarty ... in a signed edition of 65 copies ...."

Did I say yes, did I say no

James Purdy. Printed in dark green on gray paper. Title from first line. Prose poem. "Printed by Stuart McCarty ... in a signed edition of 65 copies ...."

Did I say yes, did I say no

James Purdy. Printed in dark green on gray paper. Title from first line. Prose poem. "Printed by Stuart McCarty ... in a signed edition of 65 copies ...."

Diario de India y Nepal 2/2: Mandalas y Poemas

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.2 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/)

Diario de India y Nepal 1/2: "Tras las huellas de Buda"

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.2 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/)

Dialogue with God

Dialogue with God

Brown University

In verse. At end of text: Kirby Congdon. Also published in his Juggernaut (1966); cf. Kirby Congdon, p. [7] In lower right corner: Crank Books, Box 35, New York 14. Ivory paper printed in black; includes photograph. First line: You love me, don't you?

Dialogue for Christmas

Dialogue for Christmas

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poetry. Printed in reddish-brown and green on beige paper. Caption title. "The poem is by Jeremy Taylor."

Dialogue between F--r R--ts, and the P--y

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 19.5 x 14.4 cm. Verse dialogue among R--ts, P--y and first and second spectators. R--ts mentions his farm and his livestock; possibly "F--r" means "Farmer." Mentions of "rotten eggs" and the P--y being "doom'd thy cumb'rous weight to bear" show that "P--y" means "Pillory." Apparently F--r R--ts (Farmer Roberts?) has been condemned to stand in the pillory for his support of Thomas Paine. "God save the King" in last line indicates England as the place of publication; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Dialogue between Death and a lady

Printed area measures: 20.8 x 10.6 cm. Poetry printed within border of type ornaments; a shortened, re-arranged version of this dialogue in six verses. Imprint data suggested by typography. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, or Bristol. First line: Fair lady, lay your costly robes aside.

Diabolou machia, or, Battle of Dragon

Poem on a brawl at Dragon, later Fair Haven, Conn., now part of the City of New Haven; the fight involved Yale University students. Caption title. At end of note following text: The Author of the poem was my [Yale] classmate Hill, who read it to the Scientific Club of the class ... January, 1875. W.C.F. [i.e. William Chauncey Fowler] First line: Now Cynthia had her lamp put out.