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

Charity

Charity

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper. At right of text sepia illustration of woman holding small child who gives a coin to an old man. Poem in eight lines.

Charge of the L.T.L

Charge of the L.T.L

Brown University

by B.F.M. Sours. To be sung to the tune: Hold the fort. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: L-T-L's be strong, go forward. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; possibly T.L. in title stands for Temperance League.

Chanting at the crystal sea

Poems Poems Title from p. [1] as folded Dedication at head of first poem: For Helen Howe 1905-1975. Page [16] as folded reads: Fire Exit/William Corbett ... Boston, Mass. 02116. April Fire exit. Cover--David Von Schlegell; poems--Chanting at the crystal sea--Susan Howe. Printed to form 16 unnumbered pages as folded; ill. on p. [1]

Chanting at the crystal sea

Poems Poems Title from p. [1] as folded Dedication at head of first poem: For Helen Howe 1905-1975. Page [16] as folded reads: Fire Exit/William Corbett ... Boston, Mass. 02116. April Fire exit. Cover--David Von Schlegell; poems--Chanting at the crystal sea--Susan Howe. Printed to form 16 unnumbered pages as folded; ill. on p. [1]

Chanting at the crystal sea

Poems. Title from p. [1] as folded. Dedication at head of first poem: For Helen Howe 1905-1975. Page [16] as folded reads: Fire Exit/William Corbett ... Boston, Mass. 02116. April Fire exit. Cover--David Von Schlegell; poems--Chanting at the crystal sea--Susan Howe. Printed to form 16 unnumbered pages as folded; ill. on p. [1] First line of poem: Vast oblong space dwindled to one solitary rock.

Chant des morts-en France et en Belgique

Pierre Lardon. Broadsheet printed on glossy white paper within single-line green border. At head of title on recto cut of rooster. Text of song on verso in four numbered eight-line stanzas with five-line refrain beginning: Non! Vous ne passerez jamais.

Champagne Chalie

Champagne Chalie

Brown University

Cut of irate woman a hacking husband at head of title.

Challenge of the riding-whips: A New-Year's ballad

Written expressly for the New-Year's number of The Hub, by author of "The legend of St. Olaf's Kirk." At head of text prose paragraph about ballad's setting, the Morris Mansion, Port Morris, N.Y. in 1817 just after the death of Gouverneur Morris. Poem in 39 four-line stanzas. At end of text on page [4]: Office of "The Hub," 323 Pearl-street, New-York, New-Year's Day, 1884. Author's name not on item; Houghton was author of The legend of St. Olaf's Kirk.

Chairs above the Danube

Chairs above the Danube

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in blue and black on cream paper. Translation of Székek a Duna fölött. From Modern Hungarian poetry, New York, 1977. At end of poem: Szabolcs Várady translated from the Hungarian by William Jay Smith. "With all best wishes for 1977 from Sonja and Bill Smith.

Chaire Adpha Dedta Phi

Chaire Adpha Dedta Phi

Brown University

Within single-line border with ornamental corners. In Classical Greek, with mistakes, except for name of tune and author. To be sung to the tune: Lauriger Horatius. Poem in three four-line stanzas with four-line chorus. Type-signed at end: George S. Bishop, Amherst. Possible publication date suggested because this song published, with author's name, in 1858 in Selections from the Alpha Delta Phi songbook, New York.

Cervantes

Cervantes

Brown University

Poetry. At end of text: Dedicated to Charles A. Ludden ... by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. 1936 A.D..

Certainly

Certainly

Brown University

Within decorative border. Pale yellow paper printed in black