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

Compliments of your letter carrier, January 1, 1871

Within double-line border with ornamental corners on page [1], single-line borders on pages [2]-[3], double-line border on page [4] Cover title. In lower margin on page [1] below border: Livingston, Printer. Includes poem in nine eight-line stanzas. Includes names of postal employees and information about rules, rates and hours.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Albert's Buckhorn Saloon, San Antonio, Texas

Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. All pages except the first and last within single-line border. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of mounted deer head with 78 points; on last page reproduction of photograph of Albert Friedrich, owner of Albert's Buckhorn Saloon. Brochure describes the saloon's collection of horns and includes two poems.

Complimentary to the steamer Niagara

Within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns. Describes life of 50th Massachusetts soldiers from Haverhill quartered on steamer Niagara.

Compensation

Compensation

Brown University

Christmas card. At end of text: A greeting of friendship from Harry and Helen Koopman, Christmas 1927.

Compassionate Greece

Compassionate Greece

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Page [2] blank. "Dedicated to Penelope Nestor, of Hellenic ancestry and a friend of Armenia."--Cover. Poem in three four-line stanzas.

Compassionate Greece

Compassionate Greece

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Page [2] blank. "Dedicated to Penelope Nestor, of Hellenic ancestry and a friend of Armenia."--Cover. Poem in three four-line stanzas.

Comparisons

Comparisons

Brown University

by Diane Wakoski. Poem. Printed in brown on buff paper. First line: When you are with me. Title from verso.

Company song: written for the banquet of Company E, 44th Regiment

Printed on pink paper within double-line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: Original--Harry T. Reed. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; according to the song, the Civil War is over.

Company B

Company B

Brown University

Air: John Brown. Within double line ornamental border.