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

Autumnal

Autumnal

Brown University

Page [2] blank. French fold; printed in brown on double page on wheat-colored paper. Caption title. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of man's head. Type-signed at end of poem: Tom Meyer.

Autumnal

Autumnal

Brown University

Page [2] blank. French fold; printed in brown on double page on wheat-colored paper. Caption title. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of man's head. Type-signed at end of poem: Tom Meyer.

Autumn: Ballade to decrepitude

Cover title. Poetry in twenty-eight lines. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Imprint at bottom of page [1]: Grey Bow Press, 1927. According to a xeroxed printed bibliography of the Press by Baughman (See Brown U. Harris 1926 BA9154o) the ballad was written and set by Baughman and printed by Gregg Anderson.

Autumn tithes

Autumn tithes

Brown University

by C.F. MacIntyre. Poetry. French fold; printed on double page. Printed in black and green; title within border of type ornaments. "One hundred copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena on October 3, 1949, for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and other friends of Larry Powell."

Auto woes

Auto woes

Brown University

Poem in six alternating stanzas of five and four lines. Type signed at end of poem: Harold Rexford. In purple ink below type signature: Copyright 1906 by Harold Rexford Hewitt.

Australia at the Philadelphia Centennial

Printed in gold on dark blue. At head of text: Reprinted from The Queenslander. At end of text: Hector Orr. Philadelphia, June 10, 1876. The manuscript of the above was mailed at Philadelphia ... and the number of the Queenslander, ... containing the verses, was received ... in Philadelphia ...

Auld lang syne

Auld lang syne

Brown University

Test of song in two eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Farewell, farewell, dear friends, farewell.

Auld lang syne

Auld lang syne

Brown University

Test of song in two eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Farewell, farewell, dear friends, farewell.

August 1st, 1970

August 1st, 1970

Brown University

Joseph Raffael. Printed in blue-green and brown on cream-colored watermarked Arches paper. At left of text illustration of head of lioness. Poem in 13 lines. Imprint from dealer.

August 1st, 1970

August 1st, 1970

Brown University

Joseph Raffael. Printed in blue-green and brown on cream-colored watermarked Arches paper. At left of text illustration of head of lioness. Poem in 13 lines. Imprint from dealer.