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 greetings

Christmas greetings

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. On page [1] colored illustration of open illustrated Bible with candles; on page [2] vignette of wall sconce with lighted candles. Caption title. Poem in two four-line stanzas. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho. in U.S.A. No. 4381." Suggested range of publication dates because several poems by Frame were published in the 1950s.

Christmas greetings

Christmas greetings

Brown University

Christmas card printed in green. At end of text: Elm Park Parsonage--1929.

Christmas greeting

Christmas greeting

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper with scalloped edges on three sides. Embossed and colored illustration of lilies on page [1] surround pasted-on illustration of daisies. Caption title. Poem in four lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas elegy for Francesca

Printed in red on ivory paper. At end of text: May Sarton / Christmas Eve 1957. Place of publication suggested by May Sarton's residency in Cambridge and type comparisons of broadsides.

Christmas Day, 1874

Christmas Day, 1874

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1]: within single line border with corner ornaments.

Christmas chimes

Christmas chimes

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Within single line border. At end of text: E.H.C.

Christmas carols

Christmas carols

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Text of two carols, each with the same chorus printed at the beginning.

Christmas carol. 1866

Christmas carol. 1866

Brown University

Within double line border printed in two columns. At end of text: A.R.T. Music by G.P. Benjamin.

Christmas carol

Christmas carol

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. Text of carol in six numbered six-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates because Gilchrist published this carol along with two others with the music in 1875.

Christmas carol

Christmas carol

Brown University

Printed in blue and red. Text on page [1] within red and grey double line border.

Christmas carol

Christmas carol

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. Text of carol in six numbered six-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates because Gilchrist published this carol along with two others with the music in 1875.