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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

Two for Bukowski

Two for Bukowski

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink paper in two columns. At head of second column drawing of Bukowski signed: DB 1986.

Two flags

Two flags

Brown University

David Merritt Carlyle. Printed in black, red, blue and gold on ivory paper; text in black. Colored illustration of church flag at left and United States flag at right, both on gold flagstaffs. Issued pasted within brown paper frame with single gilt-line border. Poem in five four-line stanzas. At lower left: Eleanor Dart. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Two figures in a landscape

Two figures in a landscape

Brown University

Page [1]: The Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in Poetry / Thirty-Sixth Award--1952. At end of text: This poem received the award .. Reprinted from typewritten copy.

Two faces of black

Two faces of black

Brown University

Poetry; each poem type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on gold paper. At left of first poem: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]")

Two ensemble works

Two ensemble works

Brown University

by Michael Basinski. Printed on mottled tan paper. Caption title. Poems.

Two cinquains

Two cinquains

Brown University

Clarence L. Weaver. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Author's address in upper left corner on verso. Two five-line poems. At end of text on recto: United Amateur Press, 1969.

Twilight: a poem

Twilight: a poem

Brown University

"Fifty copies have been privately printed ..." No. 33 "Not by Kipling. A reprint of five lines from Longfellow's The Discoverer of the North Cape."--Blanck. Bibliography of American literature, v. 5, p. 639

Twilight over Berlin

Twilight over Berlin

Brown University

Clement Wood. Printed on cream-colored paper. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Twilight on the desert

Twilight on the desert

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in dark blue; text of poem on recto in two columns. Text superimposed on upper part of reproduction of color photograph of desert landscape at sunset. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Roscoe G. Willson. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Twentieth century Mother Goose

Twentieth century Mother Goose

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustration of old woman riding goose above crowd of nursery-rhyme characters. On verso, headed: Ko-Nut, suggestions for using the coconut product Ko-Nut to replace butter and lard in cooking. Advertising card. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Twelfth night

Twelfth night

Brown University

[Reprinted by permission, from the Freeman] At end of text: Mrs. Dickens' Book Shop--190 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.