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

An invocation

An invocation

Brown University

by Ambrose Bierce. French fold; printed on double page. On page [4]: Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio in 1842 .. At head of text: Read at the celebration of Independence Day, San Francisco, 1888. Date from internal evidence; must be between date of Bierce's death mentioned on page [4] and date noted in ms. on item.

An invitation

An invitation

Brown University

At head of title: (From "Sonnets to Gabriel")

An international hymn

An international hymn

Brown University

Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.

An international hymn

An international hymn

Brown University

Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.

An international hymn

An international hymn

Brown University

Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.

An interlude

An interlude

Brown University

Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An interlude

An interlude

Brown University

Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An interlude

An interlude

Brown University

Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An inside tip

An inside tip

Brown University

Poetry; printed in green and red on green paper below Saturday Review letterhead. Printed on illustrated self mailer patented by The Sawdon Co., Inc. with return address, postage paid, and typed address on verso. At end of text: William Rose Benet.

An inhabited floriated initial

invenit & sculpsit Kitzi Pantzer. Page [2] blank. At head of title illustration of cartoon figure holding large letter "M" between flowers. Poem in four lines, with footnotes. "STC" probably refers to A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, of the second edition of which Pantzer was an editor.

An ingenious production

An ingenious production

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided first by curvilinear and then single line. Prose piece is testimonial to William C. Brown's temperance poem "Ode to Rum" and urges temperance editors to publish ode at least once a year. A later ed. (Boston?, 1851?) is recorded as NUC pre-1956 NB 0867658.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An immutable song: (for Julie)

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in dark green on green paper. On cover uncaptioned abstract illustration. Caption title. At end of poem on page [3]: Christmas greetings 1965. In intaglio on page [3]: Percival R. Roberts, III, poet laureate State of Delaware.

An If for women

An If for women

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy gray paper within border of type ornament sections. Imitation of Kipling'd If in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Mary R. Shepard, R.N. Worcester, 1919.

An idyl

An idyl

Brown University

Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in brown on cream paper in two columns divided by single lines. Type-signed at end: By Florence V. R. French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An hymn

An hymn

Brown University

by S. Davis, A.M. sung at the ordination of John Kirby, in the 3d Parish in Newbury, June 12th, 1816. Line of type ornaments at top and bottom.

An honest man

An honest man

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: These homely rhymes relate to A.O.B., / Faint tribute to his worth, from S.P.T. At end of text: S.P.T.