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 thanksgiving hymn, for the Land-holders' late victory

Poetry. Printed area: 21.2 x 8.5 cm. Within border of type ornaments. Ironical poem in ten four-line stanzas praising God for victory over Dorrites. At end of text: Cynthia Suffrage. First line: Great God! with meekness and with awe.

A thanksgiving hymn

A thanksgiving hymn

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of title: Reprinted from The Hermonite of December 14, 1901. At head of text: Written for Henry Moore Cottage. At end of text: East Northfield, Mass., Nov. 28, 1901.

A temperance bowling alley: for the Maine law

By Withington. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

A temperance bowling alley: for the Maine law

By Withington. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

A temperance bowling alley: for the Maine law

By Withington. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

A tear in the sanctuary

A tear in the sanctuary

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Ward. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Watchman. Providence, R.I. Written New-Year's day of the present year (1854) ....

A tale of the fireside

A tale of the fireside

Brown University

lyric by J.J. Thornton ; music by J.R. Shannon. For voice and piano. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman and child in front of fireplace.

A tale of horror

A tale of horror

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: See the corn-curing hero comes. Poem in six four-line stanzas advertising Cosmetic, a corn remedy. At end of poem: C.A. Frazer & Co., Druggists, East Abington, Proprietors of Cosmetic, the great Corn Remedy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A sure defence against all harm is Allen's Jewel five cent plug

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. When bottom is folded up colored illustration shows red-haired man resembling caricatured Irishman threatening with his fists a dark-bearded man resembling caricatured Jew; when unfolded illustration shows the two shaking hands as first man accepts some chewing tobacco. Metamorphic card advertises Allen's chewing tobacco. Includes poem in three four-line stanzas on recto. On verso illustration of packages of Allen's chewing tobacco with text advertising Lewis & Bishop, jobbers in Warsaw, N.Y. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A summer masque sonnet: (thanking for a mask)

Poetry. Printed in red and black. At end of poem: Geoffrey Hartman. "Printed, in an edition of 25, by Robert Denham at the Iron Mountain Press, Emory, Va., for the members of Geoffrey Hartman's N E H Seminar, Yale University, summer 1977." First line: What device could I infold for thirteen travelers?

A story of Bethlehem

A story of Bethlehem

Brown University

by Frances L. Swanson. Processed copy on heavy red paper. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Dedicated to John Quigley in the service. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

A spring calendar

A spring calendar

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. At end of text: Madison, N.J., April 24, 1901.

A sonnet

A sonnet

Brown University

composed by Edward Robeson Taylor a one-time member of the Chit Chat Club on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Club. Pages [2,4] blank.

A song, or, The lamentable death of Polly

Describes death of pleasure-loving young woman. Describes death of pleasure-loving young woman. Printed area measures: 20.9 x 17.7 cm. Poetry in 13 stanzas. Stanzas 1- 12 printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line; within border of type ornaments. To be sung to the tune: Old Hundred. At end of text, below single line: J. Young, Printer, "Pennsylvanier" Office, Lebanon, Pa. John Young & Co. are listed as publishers in Lebanon beginning 1861; the newspaper was published under the title "Pennsylvanier" beginning May 1865. Internal evidence would suggest a publication date no later than l860s.