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

Christmas, 1868

Christmas, 1868

Brown University

Poetry. A carol in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: M.A.B.

Christmas-time

Christmas-time

Brown University

In upper left corner of page [1] and below address of page [4] Christmas star decoration. Christmas greeting and ALS from Kay Turner to Dr. T.O. Mabbott and family.

Christmas--Noel: (winter solstice--Yuletide)

Page [4] blank. Printed in red and green on heavy white paper. Vignette of maple leaf on page [1] "Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year." Poem.

Christmas--1954

Christmas--1954

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed on green paper within ornamental border.

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Brown University

by Richard Lyons with a woodcut by Kent Kirby. One of 40 hand-set copies printed on brown paper. At head of title on page [1]: Centameters No. 3 August 16, 1962. Wood engraving by Kirby on page [ 2]; press mark and colophon on page [4]

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Brown University

by Richard Lyons with a woodcut by Kent Kirby. One of 40 hand-set copies printed on brown paper. At head of title on page [1]: Centameters No. 3 August 16, 1962. Wood engraving by Kirby on page [ 2]; press mark and colophon on page [4]

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Brown University

by Richard Lyons with a woodcut by Kent Kirby. One of 40 hand-set copies printed on brown paper. At head of title on page [1]: Centameters No. 3 August 16, 1962. Wood engraving by Kirby on page [ 2]; press mark and colophon on page [4]

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Brown University

by E.E. Cummings. Broadsheet printed in green and red; right and lower edges deckled. Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas. Title printed vertically within red and green double rule border with moon and stars in upper third. At end of text: Christmas greetings from Cornelia & Waller Barrett 1960. Colophon on verso: ... Designed and printed at the Golden Eagle Press by S.A. Jacobs who produced the original edition. ... Reprinted from Poems 1923-1954 ... The Golden Eagle Press printed works by Cummings in the 1930s and was then in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Brown University

by Richard Lyons with a woodcut by Kent Kirby. One of 40 hand-set copies printed on brown paper. At head of title on page [1]: Centameters No. 3 August 16, 1962. Wood engraving by Kirby on page [ 2]; press mark and colophon on page [4]

Christmas thoughts

Christmas thoughts

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. On page [1] colored Nativity scene; on page [2] illustration of lantern with holly, captioned: Holiday greetings, and seal of the United Amateur Press Association; on page [4] illustration of candelabrum captioned: 1954. Caption title. Poem in three four-line stanzas. "CPH Litho. in U.S.A. 84-5411."

Christmas souvenir: 1887

Printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in brown. Uncaptioned colored illustration of child with muff and sprays of pine and holly extends across pages [1] and [4] Caption title. Program for Christmas concert of the First Evangelical Congregational Sabbath School of Lunenburg.

Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.