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.
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Items in this collection

Belgium

Belgium

Brown University

by David Starr Jordan and Raymond Macdonald Alden ... October 9, 1915. Page [4] blank. Cover title. Poem in eleven stanzas of varying length.

Belgium

Belgium

Brown University

by David Starr Jordan and Raymond Macdonald Alden ... October 9, 1915. Page [4] blank. Cover title. Poem in eleven stanzas of varying length.

Belgian rose

Belgian rose

Brown University

by Geo. Benoit, Robt. Levenson and Ted Garton. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Louise Glaum; roses.

Belgian rose

Belgian rose

Brown University

lyric by Will J. Hart ; music by Ed. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Sweet Siamese" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madeleine Harrison.

Belgian rose

Belgian rose

Brown University

lyric by Will J. Hart ; music by Ed. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Sweet Siamese" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madeleine Harrison.

Belgian rose

Belgian rose

Brown University

lyric by Will J. Hart ; music by Ed. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Sweet Siamese" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madeleine Harrison.

Belgian rose

Belgian rose

Brown University

lyric by Will J. Hart ; music by Ed. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Sweet Siamese" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Madeleine Harrison.

Beginnings

Beginnings

Brown University

At end of text: Howard Aaron Printed in blue on bluish-gray paper

Begin to-day: hymn

Begin to-day: hymn

Brown University

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: "Begin today," in faith that has no ending.

Before you thought of spring

First line same as title. Colophon on verso: The Unbound Anthology. The Poets' Guild Christodora House ... New York City ... From The complete poems ... Little, Brown and Company.

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

Brown University

Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

Brown University

Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

Brown University

Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beauty Lane

Beauty Lane

Brown University

Printed in red, green and brown on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of text illustration of sitting hen with woman's head. Text and music of song chorus; music by Von Tilzer. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

Beautiful Willamette River

By Samuel L. Simpson. Within ornamental border. Poem in four stanzas. At end of text: The compositor who set this type and made up the form is past 80 years old.

Beautiful hands

Beautiful hands

Brown University

Pasted on gilt-edged cardboard. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Beautiful hands

Beautiful hands

Brown University

Pasted on gilt-edged cardboard. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Beatnik Christmas tale

Beatnik Christmas tale

Brown University

A parody of Clement C. Moore's poem, The night before Christmas. Reproduced from typescript. First line: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the pad.

Beatnik Christmas tale

Beatnik Christmas tale

Brown University

A parody of Clement C. Moore's poem, The night before Christmas. Reproduced from typescript. First line: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the pad.

Beat

Beat

Brown University

At end of text: Barry Spacks / 20 Fiske House / Wellesley Massachusetts.