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

A Village / Are you ready yet not yet?

Gertrude Stein. On verso: A previously unpublished portrait of Robert Bartlett Haas, by Gertrude Stein / Paris, 1938 / Printed for the Addison M. Metcalf Collection of Gertrude Steiniana by the Warren Press, Bethel, Connecticut. Copyright Alice B. Toklas, 1956.

A view of the Brooklyn Bridge

Poetry. Processed copy. Author's name not printed on item. First line: The growing need to be moving around it to see it.

A valentine to one's wife

Poetry; pages [2-3] blank; colored bouquet above title on page [1] Colophon on page [4]: We thank a kind and thoughtful friend for a very charming bit of sentinent ... Horace and Nettie Burton Carr, Caxton Building, Cleveland February fourteenth Mcmxxix.

A valentine

A valentine

Brown University

"Limited Edition for St. Valentine's Party at the Ritz-Carlton ...." Off-white paper printed in black.

A valentine

A valentine

Brown University

"Limited Edition for St. Valentine's Party at the Ritz-Carlton ...." Off-white paper printed in black.

á una bella mas dura y cruel coqueta =: To a beautiful but heartless coquette

Pages [1] and [4] blank. English translation of the poem on opposite page. At end of Spanish text: Soneto escrito por el mejicano D. Francisco de Terrazas, quien era problemente el primer poeta nacido en suelo americano. Fué publicado en manuscrito en 1577, y se halla actualmente en la Biblioteca National de Méjico. At end of English translation: Translation ... by Mr. Peter H. Goldsmith ... delivered in the Fogg Lecture Hall, July 13, 1904, in connection with the Harvard Summer School.

A tribute: Victoria Regina

Poetry; printed in purple on gray paper. At end of text: R.H. Hawthorn. New York, February 5, 1901.

A tribute to William B. Wheatley

Processed copy on blue paper. Includes poem in three stanzas of varying length. At end of text: The above was sponsored and circulated by: Shorty Ables, Rt. 4, Box 223, El Dorado, Arkansas, Zip Code 71730. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

A tribute to Will Rogers

Printed on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections in postcard format. At head of text reproduction of head-and-shoulders photograph of Will Rogers. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Gill. Publication date suggested from date of Rogers's death.

A tribute to Will Rogers

Printed on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections in postcard format. At head of text reproduction of head-and-shoulders photograph of Will Rogers. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Gill. Publication date suggested from date of Rogers's death.

A tribute to Will Rogers

Printed on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections in postcard format. At head of text reproduction of head-and-shoulders photograph of Will Rogers. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Gill. Publication date suggested from date of Rogers's death.

A tribute to our volunteers

By Mrs. S.C. Waters, Brooklyn, N.Y. Poetry in 18 numbered four-line stanzas printed in two columns. Internal evidence suggests possible range of dates.

A tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy

by Helen Steiner Rice. Single sheet printed in sepia on tan paper, mounted in heavy white paper wrapper printed in brown with gold relief portrait of Kennedy surrounded by wreath with eagle below. Cover title. At end of text: As read by Aladdin on the Lawrence Welk Show, November 30, 1963.

A tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy

by Helen Steiner Rice. Single sheet printed in sepia on tan paper, mounted in heavy white paper wrapper printed in brown with gold relief portrait of Kennedy surrounded by wreath with eagle below. Cover title. At end of text: As read by Aladdin on the Lawrence Welk Show, November 30, 1963.