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

Balance sheet, 1953

Balance sheet, 1953

Brown University

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

Baffled effort

Baffled effort

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed on glossy wheat-colored paper. At left of title vignette of burning torch. Poem in two stanzas. Type-signed at end: Walter J. Coates Jan. 9, 1919. Imprint information from dealer.

Back you 1914

Back you 1914

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Pages [2,3] within ornamental border.

Back you 1914

Back you 1914

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Pages [2,3] within ornamental border.

Back side Albany: and, Jack of Guinea

Poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Illustration of English and American fleets under sail, facing each other, with caption: "And he boat come too arter Uncle Sam boat" separates title. In lower margin below border: Sold wholesale and retail by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2 Mercantile wharf, and head of City Wharf, North Side. Hunts & Shaw were listed at above address from 1837 to 1841. The "Siege of Platsburgh", here "Battle of Plat-te-bug" has been attributed to Micah Hawkins.

Back in Tulsa

Back in Tulsa

Brown University

Tom Clark. Printed in silver on heavy black paper. At head of title cut of Uncle Sam; at end of poem vignette of American bison. Date of imprint from Lepper, p. 117.

Back in the old town to-night

words by Jeff Branen ; music by Arthur Lange. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Suggested by and dedicated to Company L. of the 12th Regiment, N.G.N.Y." Advertisements for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier / De Takacs ; photograph of Clarence S. Wadsworth.

Back home in Dixie where I long to be

words and music by Ernest R. Heck and Floyd E. Whitmore For voice and piano Caption title Featured by: Arcadian Quartette Advertisements for other songs: p. [2], [6] Cover illustration: drawing of steamship sailing up river / H.E. Kellum; photograph of the Arcadian Quartette

Baccalaureate hymn

Baccalaureate hymn

Brown University

At end of text: Sunday June 14, 1885. Issued for the 1885 Harvard Commencement.

Babywhipland

Babywhipland

Brown University

Folded vertically; to be read unfolded. One of of 350 copies printed. At end of text: March, 1961. Colophon on page [4]: Broadside: Handset in Caslon Oldstyle and printed on a Hartford letterpress in an edition of 350 copies.

Babywhipland

Babywhipland

Brown University

Folded vertically; to be read unfolded. One of of 350 copies printed. At end of text: March, 1961. Colophon on page [4]: Broadside: Handset in Caslon Oldstyle and printed on a Hartford letterpress in an edition of 350 copies.

Babywhipland

Babywhipland

Brown University

Folded vertically; to be read unfolded. One of of 350 copies printed. At end of text: March, 1961. Colophon on page [4]: Broadside: Handset in Caslon Oldstyle and printed on a Hartford letterpress in an edition of 350 copies.

Baby's prayer will soon be answered

words and music by Billy Baskette and Van & Schenck. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "The Gem dance folio for 1919": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl praying and ship in New York harbor / Barbelle. Also available on sound discs and music rolls.

Baby's prayer will soon be answered

words and music by Billy Baskette and Van & Schenck. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "The Gem dance folio for 1919": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl praying and ship in New York harbor / Barbelle. Also available on sound discs and music rolls.

Baby

Baby

Brown University

Baby, African American (possible Robinson's child): In carriage; wearing bonnet; in front of backdrop of scenic seascape (Cliff House, in San Francisco, Calif.); California; circa 1905-1910. Baby, African American (possible Robinson's child): In carriage; wearing bonnet; in front of backdrop of scenic seascape (Cliff House, in San Francisco, Calif.); California; circa 1905-1910. 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/)