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

Caring for animals

Caring for animals

Brown University

Jon Silkin. Printed in red and black on white paper. Poem. "200 or so copies ... printed ... by Daniel Keleher at The Four Zoas Press"--Colophon.

Carcassonne

Carcassonne

Brown University

translated by M.E.W. Sherwood. Within colored ornamental border, with initial block. Printed in two columns.

Captain Ward the pirate

Captain Ward the pirate

Brown University

Poem in 108 lines printed in two columns divided by double line. Printed area measures 24.4 x 16.7 cm. Supplied imprint information suggested by internal evidence. Initials and type further suggest Leonard Deming as possible publisher. This edition not in Shaw/Shoemaker, Shoemaker, Ford, or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Captain James: who was hung and gibbeted in England, for starving to death his cabin boy

Printed area measures 20.9 x 16.2.cm. Verse in 92 lines, printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold Wholesale and Retail by L. Deming, No. 1, Market Square, corner of Merchants' Row, Boston. Above was Leonard Deming's address, also given as 1 south side of Faneuil Hall, from 1829-1831. First lines: Come all you noble bold commanders, that the raging ocean use.

Captain James: Who was hung and gibbeted in England, for starving do Death his Cabin-Boy

Poem in 23 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by heavy rule. Printed area measures 23.8 x 15.5 cm. Cuts of ship (cf. Reilly 1143) at left of first line of title. Internal evidence suggested the date approximation and possible area of publication. Absence of long s makes it questionable that it is either B10733 or B10734 listed in Bristol.

Captain James: who was hung & gibbeted in England, for starving do death his cabin-boy

Poem of 23 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by single rule. Imprint information at end of second column beneath dotted line. Cuts of ship and gallows at right and left of title. Internal evidence suggests the 1800s date approximation. Middle Street was the address of printer Angier March to 1799 and of printer John Gilman between 1805 and 1810. This edition not in Bristol, Shaw/Shoemaker or Ford.

Captain James

Captain James

Brown University

Poem of 21 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of second column below rule: Printed and sold wholesale and retail, by C. Brown, 211 Water-street, near Fulton, New York. Christian Brown was listed at above address from 1825 to 1834.

Captain Grant of the Black Marines:: song

[words] by E. L. G.; [music by] T. Maclagan For voice and piano Cover title Page 4 is unnumbered Lyrics to Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines appear on p. 3-5. Lyrics to Captain Grant of the Black Marines appear on p. 2 Library's copy has numbers 208-213 pencilled at tops of pages.

Captain Glen's unhappy voyage to New Barbary

Verse in twenty-two stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, No. 1, Market-Square, corner of Merchant's Row, Boston. Leonard Deming was at this address, also given as 1 south side of Faneuil Hall, from 1829 to 1831. Printed area: 18.9 x 13.5 cm. First line: There was a ship, and a ship of fame. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Captain Clark's ride

Captain Clark's ride

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to Captain Chas. J. Clark by his comrades May 10, 1910. Portrait: General George G. Meade.

Captain America

Captain America

Brown University

Processed copy. Yellow paper printed in black. Poem in 23 lines each consisting of a single word. Type-signed at end: By Tom Clark. A Blue Suede Shoes Free Poem July 1971.