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 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 toast to Vermont

A toast to Vermont

Brown University

Poetry printed on cardboard. Tipped on view of Lake Dunmore at head of title. With rubricated initials at end of text: J. Howard Flower.

A toast

A toast

Brown University

Pages [1], [3],and [4] blank. Printed in blue within ornamental border. Cut of crossed British and Canadian flags in red and blue at head of text.

A tiny bunch of violets from No-Man's Land

words by Joe Lyons ; music by Frank Magine. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier in trench holding violets.

A time to grow

A time to grow

Brown University

Within broken line border; printed on colored paper.

A tilt on scandal

A tilt on scandal

Brown University

Satirical poem about unnamed Brooklyn preacher who had affairs with women in his congregation. Satirical poem about unnamed Brooklyn preacher who had affairs with women in his congregation. By A Lass! A Lass! Poetry. Within double line border. Suggested publication date from internal evidence and date of Beecher-Tilton trial.

A thought on the resurrection

by Charles C. Ely. At center on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Ely reading; tailpiece of naked child holding garland. Cover title. At end of text on cover: Author of The image makers and other poems. Boston, Mass. Poem. At end of text: February, 1916.

A thought on the resurrection

by Charles C. Ely. At center on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Ely reading; tailpiece of naked child holding garland. Cover title. At end of text on cover: Author of The image makers and other poems. Boston, Mass. Poem. At end of text: February, 1916.

A thought on the resurrection

by Charles C. Ely. At center on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Ely reading; tailpiece of naked child holding garland. Cover title. At end of text on cover: Author of The image makers and other poems. Boston, Mass. Poem. At end of text: February, 1916.

A thimble of goodbye

A thimble of goodbye

Brown University

Printed on heavy ivory paper. Poem in three four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Idell T. Romero. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.