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

Coyote's hunger song

Coyote's hunger song

Brown University

Printed on heavy red paper. In lower right corner vignette of winged truck. Type-signed at end of poem: David Wilk. "Published as a Truck Press Keepsake for friends and associates ... all best wishes from Truck Press"--Colophon. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Coyote's hunger song

Coyote's hunger song

Brown University

Printed on heavy red paper. In lower right corner vignette of winged truck. Type-signed at end of poem: David Wilk. "Published as a Truck Press Keepsake for friends and associates ... all best wishes from Truck Press"--Colophon. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Coyote's hunger song

Coyote's hunger song

Brown University

Printed on heavy red paper. In lower right corner vignette of winged truck. Type-signed at end of poem: David Wilk. "Published as a Truck Press Keepsake for friends and associates ... all best wishes from Truck Press"--Colophon. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Coyote's hunger song

Coyote's hunger song

Brown University

Printed on heavy red paper. In lower right corner vignette of winged truck. Type-signed at end of poem: David Wilk. "Published as a Truck Press Keepsake for friends and associates ... all best wishes from Truck Press"--Colophon. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Cow in the sky

Cow in the sky

Brown University

Poetry in eight two-line stanzas printed in red on yellow paper; lower edge deckled. Typesigned at end: Steven Osterlund. Issued in postcard format as "Alternative Press Postcard" No later than 1973 when acquired. Title and first line same.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers: Decoration hymn

By Will M. Carlton [i.e. Carleton] Broadsheet printed on heavy white paper. On verso poem entitled No more the bugle's stirring blast: Memorial Day, beginning: No more the bugle's stirring blast. At end of each poem: Cherry Valley, May 22, 1877.

Cover them over

Cover them over

Brown University

By Will Carleton. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: Will Carleton will recite this, the Soldiers' Favorite, at the reading at the Opera House, Watertown, Thursday evening, Sept. 20 ... Go and hear the greatest poet in America recite his own works .... Publication date from dealer; Sept. 20 fell on a Thursday in 1866.

Cover them over

Cover them over

Brown University

By Will Carleton. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: Will Carleton will recite this, the Soldiers' Favorite, at the reading at the Opera House, Watertown, Thursday evening, Sept. 20 ... Go and hear the greatest poet in America recite his own works .... Publication date from dealer; Sept. 20 fell on a Thursday in 1866.

Covenant

Covenant

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1976"

Covenant

Covenant

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1976"

Courting song

Courting song

Brown University

Within border of type ornament, printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising, with type ornaments at each end. Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston.

Courting in the rain: as sung by Miss Jennie Worrell, at the Alhambra Theater.

Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Courting in the rain, courting in the rain; prose spoken passages between each stanza and chorus. At end of text within lower border: Published and sold wholesale and retail by I.S. Cohen, No. 912 Kearny Street, San Francisco. S.F. Printing Co., 412 Commerial [i.e. Commercial] St. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Mounted on sheet (31 x 24 cm.)

Courting in the rain

Courting in the rain

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornament sections. In upper margin outside border: 585. At end of text below curvilinear line and within border: H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher, 50 Chatham St., New York. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Courting in the rain, courting in the rain; prose spoken passages between each stanza and chorus. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Courage: remembering Christopher Columbus

by Edwin Markham. Poetry. Printed on green paper in two columns divided by single line; line of type ornaments at end of second column. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Cough! cough! cough!

Cough! cough! cough!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Contains advertisement for Kendall's Pectoral Balsam. Illustration of clock faces on verso within border of type ornaments. Date from internal evidence.

Cotton pickin' time in Alabam'

words by Harold L. Cool; music by Arthur J. Daly For voice and piano Cover title Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American gamblers, banjo player, woman / Barbelle Orchestrations available Library's copy has stamp on p. 2: "Copyright transferred MCMXVII to Wm. Jerome Publishing Corp."

Cotton is king!

Cotton is king!

Brown University

At end of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861 ..

Cottolene: white, pure, wholesome

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of young woman walking past title on billboard; on verso cuts of cotton plant and Cottolene container in green. Advertising card for Cottolene, a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef suet used in cooking. On recto four-line poem about Cottolene; on verso, headed: Greeting, information about product. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the woman's clothing.

Cosmos: Psalm CIV. Second version

Poetry in 34 numbered four-line stanzas printed on ivory silk; with fringed upper and lower edges. At end of text: Abraham Coles, M.D., LL.D., Tr. Below beneath rule: Bishop Lowth in his lectures refers again and again to this Psalm .. In lower margin: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Cosmos: Psalm CIV. First version

Poetry in 36 numbered four-line stanzas printed on ivory silk; with fringed upper and lower edges. At end of text: Abraham Coles, M.D., LL.D., Tr. Below beneath rule: Cosmos--a Greek word, meaning primarily "order", .. In lower margin: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Cosmo De Medici

Cosmo De Medici

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Cover title ... Dedicated to H.R.H., Humbert, King of Italy.