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

Tribute to a statesman

Tribute to a statesman

Brown University

On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Theodore Francis Green. "Produced by Frederick R. Griffiths, WJAR-TV Public Affairs Director."

Trials and smiles

Trials and smiles

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy paper in postcard format. Poem in eight lines. At end of poem: Selected. "Published by Helen A. Casterline, Dansville, N.Y." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tree of life

Tree of life

Brown University

By Eugene H. Pullen. At head of text wood-engraving of girls standing under tree, each girl holding a banner with one letter; letters spell out Tree of life. Text includes Bible readings and recitations by children. Colophon on page 4 below rule: Issued by Eben. Shute, No. 52 Bromfield Street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tree of life

Tree of life

Brown University

By Eugene H. Pullen. At head of text wood-engraving of girls standing under tree, each girl holding a banner with one letter; letters spell out Tree of life. Text includes Bible readings and recitations by children. Colophon on page 4 below rule: Issued by Eben. Shute, No. 52 Bromfield Street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Travestissement

Travestissement

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, in verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimposed on colored lithograph of two boys wearing stovepipe and pot on heads. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso poem in three four-line stanzas advertising Sollers shoes, beginning: See these young maskers proudly strutting. Title on recto in French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Travelled ways

Travelled ways

Brown University

Euna Russell Mignault. Printed on heavy textured white paper. At head of title vignette of rose. Poem in 12 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Trauer=Lied

Trauer=Lied

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: Trauer=Lied von Thomas Siegfried, in Preistaun Berks Caunty, Pennsylvanien, über eine Mordthat, welche er am 23sten Juni 1836 an sich selber vollbrachte ... das Lied mit grossem fleisz diktirt und gemacht von mir Johann Homan .. Poem in 14 stanzas of varying length.

Trastienda de la Prosa

Trastienda de la Prosa

Brown University

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.3 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/)

Transport

Transport

Brown University

Tom Wayman. Poetry. Issued folded; intended to be read unfolded; printed on cream paper. Abstract cut in reddish brown at head of text. Between title and illustration: Dreadnaught 52 pickup 21. First line begins: One morning, Wayman's car is gone.

Tramping home today

Tramping home today

Brown University

Text of three songs. At end of text: Copyright, 1918, by Wm. W.K. Nixon.

Tramp! Tramp! tramp!, or, The prisoner's hope

Text of song in three six-line stanzas and four-line chorus beginning: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching. Author's name not on item. Suggested imprint and publication date from donor. Brown University copy trimmed so that some letters at ends of lines are missing.

Trajectory

Trajectory

Brown University

Diane di Prima. Poetry. Printed on olive paper. Vignette of animal. Imprint date from Lepper, p. 154. First line: Suffering, sd the Lama, is the greatest blessing.

Trajectory

Trajectory

Brown University

Diane di Prima. Poetry. Printed on olive paper. Vignette of animal. Imprint date from Lepper, p. 154. First line: Suffering, sd the Lama, is the greatest blessing.

Traitorism

Traitorism

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line. At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress ... in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Zealous patriotic women are content if those they love ..

Tragical death of Urial Church

Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Printed in two columns for the first poem and one wider column for the second, with the last stanzas of the second poem printed vertically in the right margin, all within mourning border. In lower right corner within border: 1848.

Tragical death of Urial Church

Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Printed in two columns for the first poem and one wider column for the second, with the last stanzas of the second poem printed vertically in the right margin, all within mourning border. In lower right corner within border: 1848.

Tradesmans' hymn

Tradesmans' hymn

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns within double-line border. Poetry and prose. At end of text: Please hand this to the lady or gentleman. We will call in one or two hours. Friends, I am a mechanic out of employment and have been for a long time back, and hoping this will meet your kind sympathy, and please purchase one to help me along for the present. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tradesmans' hymn

Tradesmans' hymn

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns within double-line border. Poetry and prose. At end of text: Please hand this to the lady or gentleman. We will call in one or two hours. Friends, I am a mechanic out of employment and have been for a long time back, and hoping this will meet your kind sympathy, and please purchase one to help me along for the present. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Trade cards for patent medicines manufactured by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co

Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.

Trade cards for patent medicines manufactured by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co

Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.