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 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.

An evening out

An evening out

Brown University

Keith Abbott. Tan paper printed in black; photo.

An epithalamium, a wedding song: Together with Giles Scroggins' ghost

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Second poem attributed to C. Dibdin by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

An elephant dude

An elephant dude

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Colored illustrations of clothed elephant on pages [1] and [4]; drawings illustrating prose text on pages [2-3] Advertisement for Diamond Dyes. Probable range of dates from internal evidence.

An elegy, or, The poet's reflections: occasioned on visiting the burial ground, where the remains of Josiah Prescott ...

Printed in one and three columns divided by curvilinear lines; border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 27.2 x 22.7 cm. Subtitle continues: In the spring of the following year it was conjectured by some that his body had been taken up and removed for dissection soon after it was buried .... Suggested place of publication because subtitle calls Prescott a native of Candia and says his grave was opened and found empty in 1821.

An elegy, composed on the death of Miss Sally Oaks: elder daughter of Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Judith Oaks, of Newsalem

At head of text: Miss Sally Oaks died May 20th, 1818, aged nineteen years wanting four days. Poetry in 14 four-line stanzas printed in two columns with printed signature and date at end: Samuel Dunn. Newsalem, May 25, 1818. Samuel Dunn, active between 1800 and 1838, had most of his poems printed in nearby Greenwich, Mass., after 1816 in Enfield, Mass., by Howe. Wood engraving of coffin at left of title.