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

American child II

American child II

Brown University

by Paul Engle. Cover title. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in burnt sienna and black. From American Child, 1956. On cover: Christmas 1955.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

America's lamentation

America's lamentation

Brown University

America mourns the death of her son Washington; poem contains Masonic allusions. America mourns the death of her son Washington; poem contains Masonic allusions. Poem in eleven numbered five-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 25.0 x 9.5 cm. Publication date suggested because of the type face, and because Washington died in December 1799. Other editions of this poem are entitled Columbia's lamentation over Washington, Lamentation for General Washington, and On the death of General Washington. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Wegelin or the Checklist Amer. imprints.