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

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Common: three pictures

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. "Lithographed facsimile of the author's fair copy of the poem ... evidently prepared in connection with the fair, which opened in Boston on November 16, 1859, held in aid of a fund to procure Ball's statue of Washington for the city, to be placed on Boston Common."--T.F. Currier. A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1953, p. 85. Printed on one side of a single-folded sheet. At end of poem facsimile signature: Oliver Wendell Holmes Nov. 14th 1859. "Entered according to an act of Congress, A.D. 1859, by F.H. Underwood in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of Massachusetts."

Boplicity

Boplicity

Brown University

Printed on heavy cream paper. Poem in ten lines. Type-signed at end: Stuart Perkoff. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

Boomhower on the labor troubles

Printed in one and two columns. Prose and poetry. Includes poem in eight four-line stanzas praising Boomhower's honey. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Boom!

Boom!

Brown University

Tune: "Marching through Georgia."

Boom!

Boom!

Brown University

Tune: "Marching through Georgia."

Boom

Boom

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on pink paper. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Books of the bible

Books of the bible

Brown University

Within single line border. Text on page 4: Presented by Mrs. A.C. Ralston, to the Alameda Baptist Sunday School. School ..

Book of poems

Book of poems

Brown University

by Hans P. Hohnsbehn. Printed in red: on page [1] within single line border.

Book of poems

Book of poems

Brown University

by Hans P. Hohnsbehn. Printed in red: on page [1] within single line border.

Bon voyage: A valentine

Bon voyage: A valentine

Brown University

Printed on double leaves. Printed note on page [4]: In this year's valentine we have ... Horace and Nettie Burton Carr. Printed in purple.

Bon voyage and return: song

lyric by Janan Cecil ; music by W.S. Mygrant. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4]

Bomber!

Bomber!

Brown University

At head of text: Commentary for the Defense Film, "Bomber," produced by the Office for Emergency Management.

Bold Dighton

Bold Dighton

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at end: Sold wholesale and retail by J.G. and H. Hunt, at N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. At head of text cut of two ships engaged in battle. This poem compiled by P. Russell; its earlier editions entitled: Escape from Bassaterre.

Bold Dighton

Bold Dighton

Brown University

Poem in twenty-six stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold by Deming, wholesale and retail, No. 62, Hanover St., 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. At head of text: Being the account of an action fought off Guadalopue, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans and near three hundred Britons... This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints. This poem, composed by P. Russell, was published in earlier editions under the title: Escape from Basseterre.

Bold Dighton

Bold Dighton

Brown University

Poem in twenty-six stanzas. Printed area measures 21.0 x 17.2 cm. At head of text: Being the account of an action fought off Gaudaloupe, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans, and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail by Leonard Deming, No. 1 Market Square, corner of Merchant's Row, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as No. 1, Faneuil Hall, South side. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints. This poem, composed by P. Russell, was published in earlier editions under the title: Escape from Basseterre. First line: Come all ye bold seamen who plough the raging main.

Bohemian Club 1928 program: semi-centennial midsummer jinks

Program for semi-centennial midsummer encampment & Bohemian Grove California. Gilded illustrated title page designed by Ernest E. Weihe. Text on pages [2] through [4] within wavery double line border. Announces among others, the 27th Grove play "Nanda"; with short quotation from play.

Body sound art manifesto

Jean Paul Curtay. Printed on heavy glossy orange paper. Reproduced typescript. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Body & Sole and Brown University Theatre Present Fall Dance Concert 2002

This was the second concert devoted exclusively to student choreography produced jointly by Body and Sole and Brown Theatre. Body & Sole had been created the year before to coordinate student dance at Brown. Julie Adams Strandberg was the faculty advisor. The student choreographers for this show were: Sheela Prasad, Ruth Streiter, Kyle Shepard, Audrey McIntyre, Connie Wu, Jessica Shepardson, Lauren Linder, Kimberly Insel, Olivia Ma, Aimee, Palladino, Claudine Lott, Benjamin F. Asriel, Caedra Scott-Flaherty, Tisola Logan, Chad Ebesutani, Yasuhiro Takayama. This was the second concert devoted exclusively to student choreography produced jointly by Body and Sole and Brown Theatre. Body & Sole had been created the year before to coordinate student dance at Brown. Julie Adams Strandberg was the faculty advisor. The student choreographers for this show were: Sheela Prasad, Ruth Streiter, Kyle Shepard, Audrey McIntyre, Connie Wu, Jessica Shepardson, Lauren Linder, Kimberly Insel, Olivia Ma, Aimee, Palladino, Claudine Lott, Benjamin F. Asriel, Caedra Scott-Flaherty, Tisola Logan, Chad Ebesutani, Yasuhiro Takayama. Ashamu Dance Studio, Lyman Hall Body & Sole and Brown University Theatre Present Fall Dance Concert 2002, Department of Theatre Arts records, OF.1Q.T1, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Bobby the bomber

Bobby the bomber

Brown University

by Chas McCarron [i.e. McCarron] and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier / Barbelle.