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

Community songs: to enrich the leisure time opportunities of the community

Broadsheet printed in three columns on each side; probably intended to be folded to create [6] pages. Includes words of 28 numbered patriotic and popular songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner and ending with The Long, long trail. Suggested publication date because latest copyright date mentioned is 1920.

Communion

Communion

Brown University

Within border with corner ornaments.

Common sense protection

Common sense protection

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto poem in five numbered four-line stanzas. On verso cut of wooden fence and advertisement for Martindale's Common Sense Fence, with patent numbers and dates, beginning: Common sense is economy. Suggested publication date from latest patent mentioned, dated Nov. 20, 1888.

Common sense protection

Common sense protection

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto poem in five numbered four-line stanzas. On verso cut of wooden fence and advertisement for Martindale's Common Sense Fence, with patent numbers and dates, beginning: Common sense is economy. Suggested publication date from latest patent mentioned, dated Nov. 20, 1888.

Common sense protection

Common sense protection

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto poem in five numbered four-line stanzas. On verso cut of wooden fence and advertisement for Martindale's Common Sense Fence, with patent numbers and dates, beginning: Common sense is economy. Suggested publication date from latest patent mentioned, dated Nov. 20, 1888.

Commodore Foote's dream

Commodore Foote's dream

Brown University

1 broadsheet. On recto photograph of midget couple; beneath imprint: C.D. Fredericks Co., 587 Broadway, New York.

Commeten-Lied

Commeten-Lied

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Mel.--Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Poem in twelve numbered six-line stanzas. Date approximation from internal evidence.

Commencement songs: 1878

Printed in two columns divided by single line within double-line border. Text of two songs for commencement exercises at unnamed high school.

Commencement songs: 1878

Printed in two columns divided by single line within double-line border. Text of two songs for commencement exercises at unnamed high school.

Coming up against this statue

David Cornel DeJong. Pages [3]-[4] blank. Issued stapled into lettered brown paper wrapper. Offprint from Grecourt review containing two poems by DeJong. Suggested publication date from donor.

Coming our way

Coming our way

Brown University

Tune: Old black Joe. Printed in blue on blue paper.