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

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Bijin

Bijin

Brown University

Printed in black on peach Arches paper; title in purple. Colophon on verso: 30 copies printed in November 1974 at the Arif Press. At end of text: Kevin Power. First line: Beautiful women.

Big Chief Kill-a-Hun

Big Chief Kill-a-Hun

Brown University

words by Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie ; music by Maurice Abrahams. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of indian holding three Germans in one hand and a tomahawk in the other / Barbelle.

Bicentennial and centennial poems

by] Milford E. Shields. Title supplied. At end of text: Printed in the Congressional Record and in the Journals of the Colorado Legislature.

Beyond the sunrise

Beyond the sunrise

Brown University

Printed in green with floral garland framing title and first verse.

Beyond

Beyond

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in green. Upper text bordered by flower garland.

Beware!

Beware!

Brown University

by Edward Carswell. At head of title cut of snake in tree and two flying birds. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 44. Poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Between hills and lake

Between hills and lake

Brown University

Printed on green paper. Printed as "Prologue" in his Ithaca, Ithaca, N.Y., 1962.

Better times are coming

Better times are coming

Brown University

For voice and piano, with chorus refrain Verses 2-9 printed as text on p. 5 Red and blue ornamental border on t.p.

Better laugh than be angry: a colloquy 'twixt Henry C. and Harry B., Alexander D. and Doctor B. : the big 4

Cover title. "An (Anti) Machine Poem." At end of text on page [4] directions for voting and copy of ballot, headed: How to vote; ballot lists Stafford first, as "Citizens' Candidate," Henry C. Ide as "Republican" and N.P. Bowman as "Regular Democratic Nominee." Political poem satirizing the 1892 campaign for town representative of Saint Johnsbury, Vt., between Wendell P. Stafford and Henry C. Ide. Attributed to Wendell P. Stafford.

Betsy Baker

Betsy Baker

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments. At head of title, within border, wood engraving of ugly woman. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Comic song about unrequited love. At end of poem, beneath rule, two jokes in prose. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.