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

Cosmo De Medici

Cosmo De Medici

Brown University

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

Cosmo De Medici

Cosmo De Medici

Brown University

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

Cosmic Christ

Cosmic Christ

Brown University

Headbands of holly at head and end of text. At end of text: Christmas 1953. Jean Comstock White.

Corrida de toros

Corrida de toros

Brown University

Robert Hayden. Broadsheet printed in black on heavy cream paper folded to create [6] pages. Poem in three numbered sections entitled: El toro, El matador, and Sol y sombra. "... 100 copies printed Christmas 1959, for the author"--Colophon.

Corbett!

Corbett!

Brown University

Printed in red, blue and black on heavy white paper. Below poem cut of building in blue. Poem in nine lines. Imprint information and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a party of poor workingmen. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed authors. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a poor operative (Brown Univ. HB18507) and Copy of verses by a cotton spinner out of work (Brown Univ. HB1047)

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a poor operative. At end of text: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed worker. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a party of poor workingmen (Brown Univ. HB22375) and Copy of verses by a cotton spinner out of work (Brown Univ. HB1047)

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a cotton spinner out of work. Ornamental border at top and bottom. At end of poem: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed author. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a poor operative (Brown Univ. HB18507) and Copy of verses by a party of poor workingmen (Brown Univ. HB22375)

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a party of poor workingmen. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed authors. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a poor operative (Brown Univ. HB18507) and Copy of verses by a cotton spinner out of work (Brown Univ. HB1047)

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a poor operative. At end of text: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed worker. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a party of poor workingmen (Brown Univ. HB22375) and Copy of verses by a cotton spinner out of work (Brown Univ. HB1047)

Copy of verses

Copy of verses

Brown University

by a cotton spinner out of work. Ornamental border at top and bottom. At end of poem: A blessing (in prose) and an appeal from the unemployed author. Also issued under titles Copy of verses by a poor operative (Brown Univ. HB18507) and Copy of verses by a party of poor workingmen (Brown Univ. HB22375)

Copernicus: 1473-1543

Copernicus: 1473-1543

Brown University

Off-white paper printed in black. Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Stephen Paul Mizwa and his wife Katherine Regina Mizwa, idealists of Polish-American ancestry by William Kimberley Palmer, Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 1932 A.D.

Coon Hollow capers:: march and two step

words by W. Murdock Lind which may be sung ad lib.; music by Frank R. Gillis March and two-step for voice and piano Caption title Cover illustration: Afro-Americans dancing, playing banjo, playing dice, and eating watermelon Library's copy has retailer's stamp on cover: Henry Wh ... [sh]eet music & music bo[ooks], Washington ..

Convivial song: from Fourth of July ode read at Windsor, Vt., afternoon, July 4, 1799

Royall Tyler. Printed on birch bark; irregular edges; initial block. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. At end of text, below vignette of Liberty Bell and double rule, information about author. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.

Conversation

Conversation

Brown University

Mimeographed typescript on yellow paper. At left of first poem: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]"). This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Conversation

Conversation

Brown University

Printed in black on green paper. The grey drawing visualizes the contents of the poem. Imprint information supplied by dealer.

Convention

Convention

Brown University

Poem about several politicians up for election in Westchester County.

Continuations, section VI

Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy. Broadsheet printed on gray paper folded to create [8] pages. Cover title. Collaborative poetry in 30 six-line stanzas. Back page contains colophon, biographical and series information, and variation of Aldine printer's mark. "An edition of 750 copies."

Continuations, section VI

Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy. Broadsheet printed on gray paper folded to create [8] pages. Cover title. Collaborative poetry in 30 six-line stanzas. Back page contains colophon, biographical and series information, and variation of Aldine printer's mark. "An edition of 750 copies."