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

And the night shall be filled with music

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at left of text and spray of carnations below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

And the Lord God caused: postcard

by Tom Clark. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text on recto superimposed on colored abstract illustration; on verso in upper right corner cut of baseball catcher. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

And the Lord God caused: postcard

by Tom Clark. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text on recto superimposed on colored abstract illustration; on verso in upper right corner cut of baseball catcher. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

And the Lord God caused: postcard

by Tom Clark. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text on recto superimposed on colored abstract illustration; on verso in upper right corner cut of baseball catcher. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

And so you bid me go

And so you bid me go

Brown University

Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Printed on cream paper; title in blue-gray; right edge of page [1] deckled. First line same as title. Colophon on page [4]: There are 200 copies of this keepsake printed from Spectrum types by Michael Peich at the Aralia Press. One hundred forty copies are on Letterpress Text. Sixty copies ... are on Rives Heavy, numbered, and signed by the author.

And I, too, sing the song of all creation

Title from first line. Pages [2-3] blank. Illus. in orange, black and gold. On page [4] Impression leaflets. Edited by Paul Elder. Designed by Harold Sichel ..

And I say to mankind, be not curious about God

Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.

And I say to mankind, be not curious about God

Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.

And how do you see yourself, Mrs. Waldrop?

Broadsheet. Poetry. Advertising flyer printed on yellow paper in brown with detachable upper one-fourth bearing legend: Open Places, Box 2353, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri 65201. At end of poem: Rosmarie Waldrop. On verso: in upper fourth, order form; in lower three fourths printed horizontally advertising for her "The aggressive ways of the casual stranger" First line: If I believe only what I see I'm bulging.

And he'd say oo-la la! Wee-wee

by Harry Ruby and George Jessel. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Hippity hop" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman with umbrella and soldier / Barbelle.

And he'd say oo-la la! Wee-wee

by Harry Ruby and George Jessel. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Hippity hop" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman with umbrella and soldier / Barbelle.

And he'd say oo-la la! Wee-wee

by Harry Ruby and George Jessel. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Hippity hop" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman with umbrella and soldier / Barbelle.

And he'd say oo-la la! Wee-wee

by Harry Ruby and George Jessel. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Hippity hop" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman with umbrella and soldier / Barbelle.

And forbid them not

And forbid them not

Brown University

At end of text: Published in the San Francisco Examiner May 25, 1948, in connection with the United Nations Appeal for Children.

And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of landscape photograph captioned: Deering's Oaks, Portland, Me. Title from first line of five-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Anabase

Anabase

Brown University

Seguita dalle traduzione di T.S. Eliot e Giuseppe Ungaretti ; illustrata da Berrocal Announcement of publication of book.

An unfortunate girl's life

Printed on pink paper. At head of title illustration of horseshoe inscribed: Good luck. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Very truly yours, Miss Lottie Smith. Price: Anything you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An original hymn written to be sung by the children of the Public Schools, on the occasion of planting, in the Cambri...

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Poetry in 6 four-line stanzas captioned "Hymn" on page [3] Title with date and place on page [2] Author's name not on piece. AUthor attribution from a letter written March 24, 1936, by Harvard College Library Assistant Librarian Walter B. Briggs: The 'Cambridge Chronicle' for May 6, 1876 gives the poem; it does not state the author. The 'Cambridge Press' for May 6, 1876 states that "All present sang to the tune of 'Old Hundred" an original hymn, written by Mr. John Owen". Without question, Mr. John Owen was the author.

An oration delivered at Poker Hotel by the Rev. Mr. Give 'Em Fits

Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 23 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication date from reference to Kansas and 'bleeding Danvers", referring to pre-Civil War conflict in "bleeding Kansas."

An open prose poem to Congress

Poetry Poetry Printed in two columns Type-signed at end: T-3 Jerome Z. Litt, U.S. Army. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Ms. signature "T/4 Frederick E. Altieri, U.S. Army"; stamped "Rec'd JAN 16 1946. Ans'd [blank]"; fold traces.

An open letter to the poets of America

Caption title. Poetry in thirty-two lines printed in black on lavender paper. Typesigned at end: Leonard Randolph. Colophon in lower margin: Set at NewCompGraphics, Beyond Baroqie Foundation, Venice, Ca. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

An omen for Stevie Smith: 'Being alive is like being in enemy territory.'

Poetry. Printed in black on buff paper with gray deckled lower edge. At end of poem: Jonathan Williams. Colophon at end: One hundred copies of this unpublished poem handset and printed at the Bibliographical Press--Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven 1977. First line: This is your Aunt.