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 appeal to the charitable

Within ornamental border. Poem in five stanzas of four lines each with printed attribution "by W.H. Chase" Text at head of title recommending Chase is signed by "Geo. H. Thacher, Mayor, Albany, N.Y." and two other men. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Partial version of a four stanza poem with eight lines each attributed to George W. Avery.

An appeal to the charitable

Within ornamental border Poem in five stanzas of four lines each with printed attribution "by W.H. Chase" Text at head of title recommending Chase is signed by "Geo. H. Thacher, Mayor, Albany, N.Y." and two other men. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Partial version of a four stanza poem with eight lines each attributed to George W. Avery

An appeal to the charitable

Within ornamental border Poem in five stanzas of four lines each with printed attribution "by W.H. Chase" Text at head of title recommending Chase is signed by "Geo. H. Thacher, Mayor, Albany, N.Y." and two other men. Partial version of a four stanza poem with eight lines each attributed to George W. Avery

An appeal

An appeal

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At end of text: Enlist at 24 East 23rd Street, New York.

An anti-Klan epic

An anti-Klan epic

Brown University

Poem attacks Klan for religious bigotry but does not mention race. Poem attacks Klan for religious bigotry but does not mention race. Printed in red on off-white paper. At end of text: A Comanche Indian. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication because of reference to Arkansas in text; suggested date from acquisition date of Brown University copy; text refers to World War I and not World War II.

An all-round man

An all-round man

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on tan paper within single-line border. At head of title drawing of three people in library; at end of poem on verso drawing of two men with book. Poetry. At end of text on recto: From "Si Briggs talks" by Madeline Yale Wynne. At end of text on verso: Compliments of Houghton Mifflin Company. Date from publication date of book.

An address to the blind

An address to the blind

Brown University

by J. B. Smith, Louisville Ky. Poem in 16 verses. Within ornamental border printed in two columns, divided by double line. Printed area: 19.2 x 14 cm. At end of text: J.M.G. A shorter version of the poem was published in Philadelphia in 1876. First line: Courage, brother, ye've a battle.

An address to slanderers and people of ingratitude

Poem attacks slanderers of Thomson and mentions his cures. Poem attacks slanderers of Thomson and mentions his cures. Border of type ornaments at head and foot of text. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence. Variant reading of this poem appears in Samuel Thomson's Learned quackery exposed; or, Theory according to art. [Boston, 1824]

An address on the Union

An address on the Union

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Written for the Fair of the Ladies' Christian Commission of the Pacific ..

An acrostic: to Miss Sarah Ann Tappan

Poem of consolation on death of a parent. Poem of consolation on death of a parent. Within meander border of type ornaments. "Sarah Ann Tappan" in subtitle made up of initial letters of lines of poem. Printed area measures: 9.2 x 6.7 cm. Poem in one stanza of five lines, one of three and one of six, corresponding to letters of Miss Tappan's name. Type-signed at end: A** T******N. Waterbury, Vt. May 24, 1832.

An acrostic

An acrostic

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. The acrostic reads: David Walker MD. Place of publication noted on another broadside by author with same paper.

An acrostic

An acrostic

Brown University

Acrostic on the name Cynthia Pratt Acrostic on the name Cynthia Pratt In ornamental border

An account of the fire in Merimachi: in the year 1825

by Thos. M. Jordan. Poetry in 21 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. The broadside was probably printed in Maine. The backing of Brown University's broadside copy is an 1836 Maine newspaper. A seemingly autobiographical broadside poem by the same author mentions the Penobscot River and Bangor. Merimachi is an alternative spelling for Miramichi, the old name of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada. The entry for Newcastle in Lippincott's gazetteer reads: Newcastle, or Miramichi.

An "If" for Rotarians: (With acknowledgement to Rudyard Kipling)

Poem printed in blue, within red decorative border. Symbol of Rotary International in red between title and text. At end of text: Will Arthur Rotary Club of New Haven, Conn. Copyrighted; below, outside border: (Special edition for Rotarians, presented by Rotarian Roger W. Tuttle)