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

At the fair

At the fair

Brown University

At head of title: The Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.

At the end of the line

At the end of the line

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1] To the B. of L.E. of A. This rhyme is dedicated by a 30 year Traveler. At the end of the line.

At the end of the line

At the end of the line

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1] To the B. of L.E. of A. This rhyme is dedicated by a 30 year Traveler. At the end of the line.

At the end of the line

At the end of the line

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1] To the B. of L.E. of A. This rhyme is dedicated by a 30 year Traveler. At the end of the line.

At the Dixie military ball

words by Ballard Macdonald ; music by Harry Carroll. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for "Gem dance folio for 1919": p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: people in formal attire and a policeman / E.E. Walton.

At sunset

At sunset

Brown University

At head of text: Song-poem ..

At parting

At parting

Brown University

by Sam L. Simpson. Within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Touch hands with love.

At my desk 1966

At my desk 1966

Brown University

William Ferguson. Poetry. Printed in black on off-white paper. "One hundred copies July 5, 1966." First line: I am in for the cloth of black buckram painted with fire.

At last

At last

Brown University

Printed on green paper.

At last

At last

Brown University

Printed on green paper.

At last

At last

Brown University

Printed on green paper.

At Gettysburg

At Gettysburg

Brown University

Double lines at head of title and end of text. At head of text: Read at the Camp-Fire of the Grand Army of the Republic, Fifth Avenue Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 4th, 1887.

At Easter

At Easter

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Page [2] blank. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black and blue. On page [1] colored illustration of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene; on page [4] seal of the United Amateur Press Association. Caption title. Poem in two four-line stanzas. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho. in U.S.A. No. 2571." Suggested range of publication dates because several poems by Frame were published in the 1950s.

At Christmastide

At Christmastide

Brown University

Christmas card At end of text: From Harry and Helen Koopman

At Christmas time

At Christmas time

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. On page [1]: Christmas greetings.