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

Uncivilized

Uncivilized

Brown University

At head of title: No. 90-Henry George Free Tract Society, Endwell, N.Y.

Un jour maitre O'Farrell: chanson d'actualité

par du May d'Amour. Air: Un jour maitre Corbeau. Text of song in 12 four-line stanzas with two-line refrain beginning: Sur l'air du tra la la. Author's name from dealer; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ultimatum for man

Ultimatum for man

Brown University

Peggy Pond Church. Broadsheet printed in red on recto and black on verso. Poem on recto and information about author on verso. Suggested publication date from date of "her Ahsahta collection" mentioned on verso.

Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States & the United States

Broadside printed in yellow, black and blue on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. On recto reproduction of five hundred dollar Confederate note. Title from first lines on recto, printed on note. On verso paragraph explaining origin of poem and ascribing it to a Major A. L. Jones of Mississippi, and poem beginning: Representing nothing on God's earth now. Poem is often called The Confederate note, and attributed to S.A. Jonas.

Two wintery poems

Two wintery poems

Brown University

by Robert Frost. Printed in black and green on light gray paper with deckled edge. Below title on page [1] drawing in green of landscape; at bottom of page [3] drawing in green of window; on page [4] printer's mark in black.

Two sonnets

Two sonnets

Brown University

by Daniel Hugh Verder. Page [4] blank. French-fold; printed on double page. Printed in red and black on heavy laid paper; rubricated initials. Below author's name on page [1]: To Harry Elkins Widener, died April 15, 1912 the Memorial Library dedicated June 24, 1915.

Two poems and an invitation

French fold (printed on double leaves) On p. [4]: The Educational Office of the Dartmouth College Library invites your participation in its Poetry Program for 1949. The program included a reception for the two poets and a symposium on May 5, and a consultation with undergraduate poets and two poetry readings on May 6.

Two poems

Two poems

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Poetry; printed in red and black. Page [4] blank. At bottom of page [1]: Christmas 1962.

Two poems

Two poems

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Poetry; printed in red and black. Page [4] blank. At bottom of page [1]: Christmas 1962.