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

Baptismal hymn

Baptismal hymn

Brown University

by C.D. Bradlee. At head of text: Helen Curtis Bradlee, Jacob Weld Seaver, and Susan Seaver, received baptism at the hands of Rev. E.E. Hale, Dec. 25th, 1875. The following hymn was written in commemoration of the event.

Baptism at the coffin's head

Pages [2-4] blank. Printed on colored paper. At head of text: "Agreeably to her request, her little babe was baptized at the head of the coffin of its mother." .. First line: Lieth here beneath her shroud.

Baptism

Baptism

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in blue. At head of text: Dedicated to the candidates baptized in the First Baptist Church, Fall River, April 1st, 1866.

Baptism

Baptism

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in blue. At head of text: Dedicated to the candidates baptized in the First Baptist Church, Fall River, April 1st, 1866.

Banner song

Banner song

Brown University

Tune: Flag of our Union. Within ornamental border.

Banked fires

Banked fires

Brown University

Caption title. At end of text: Anne P. L. Field. November, 1915. Copyright, 1915, by E. P. Dutton & Co.

Bamberg: a poem

Bamberg: a poem

Brown University

Includes two illustrations of human figure with hands crossed on chest. In a specially designed paper folder, with the title and author's name on the cover. Poem in nine lines. "50 copies printed at the Gehenna Press by A. Troxler ... July, 1966."e.

Ballyporeen: and, Begone, dull care

Poetry printed in two columns. In lower margin below single line: Printed and sold, Wholesale and Retail, at 257 Hudson-street, and 138 Division-street. From 1831 to 1833 Lewis and Willilam Applegate were listed at above address. William alone was listed there in 1834 and 1835.

Ballyporeen: and, Begone, dull care

Poetry printed in two columns. In lower margin below single line: Printed and sold, Wholesale and Retail, at 257 Hudson-street, and 138 Division-street. From 1831 to 1833 Lewis and Willilam Applegate were listed at above address. William alone was listed there in 1834 and 1835.

Ballads of Harvard.-No. 7

At head of text: Harvard Lampoon. At head of text: Billy Park's. Facsimile author autograph and presentation inscription.

Ballade of boys bathing

Ballade of boys bathing

Brown University

by Fred. W. Rolfe. Printed in orange and dark blue on white paper. On page [1] vignette of basket of flowers. Cover title. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with four-line Envoy. At end of text on page [3]: Officina Mauritiana. This edition is limited to two hundred copies of which not all are for sale. This is No. [blank] Colophon on page 4 begins: This poem of Corvo at the time called Frederick W Rolfe was probably written, MDCCCLXXXVIII at St Andrews and appeared in 'The Art Review' for April MDCCCXC and has never since been published.

Ballad of the tempting book

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet; text printed in brown. Advertisement for The Oxford Book of English Verse; also lists prices of other Oxford books of verses.

Ballad of the earthly lover

Poetry. Processed copy. Printed in green on light green paper. On page [1] hand-colored illustration of candle and pine cone. Type-signed at end of poem on page [3]: Elsa Gidlow.

Ballad of Charlie Arthur 1928-75 R.I.P

Printed on yellow paper. Type-signed at end of poem: John Summers, New Zealand. At end of text: Charlie Arthur: one of several victims of the "rare" liver cancer angiosarcoma contracted through cleaning poly vinyl chloride vats in a B.F. Goodrich factory at Avon Lake, Ohio. See "The plastic coffin of Charlie Arthur; Rolling Stone, January 15, 1976.

Balance sheet, 1953

Balance sheet, 1953

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. Page [1]: Greetings from the Allens.