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 soldier's dream

A soldier's dream

Brown University

words and music by Byron Gay. For medium low voice and piano in C major. Caption title. War slogan: p. [2] Cover illustration: photograph of Ernestine Schumannheink. Photograph of Ernestine Schumannheink presenting colors to the 21st Infantry, U.S.A.: p. [6] Also published for: low voice in B♭ major, medium high voice in D♭ major (original key), high voice in E♭ major.

A snow-storm

A snow-storm

Brown University

By Geo. W. Bungay. At head of title cut of girl in snow in front of house. Caption title. At upper right corner of page [1]: No. 11. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A short happy poem for Marianne Moore

Ruthven Todd. Broadsheet. Printed on blue paper. Text on recto printed in three sections according to fold areas; at head: Christmas Broadside Number Six. Verso contains MS poem signed by author in facsimile. 1 of 2000 copies. Reproduced from the author's Italic holograph.

A short

A short

Brown University

At end of text: Spike / a Cranium free poem. Dark yellow paper printed in black.

A shepherd's prayer

A shepherd's prayer

Brown University

At head of title: Reprinted from The Evangelical, Harrisburg Pa., April 29, 1901. At head of text: From the Modern Greek. At end of text: Athens, May 31, 1874.

A sheaf of winter lyrics

by Wilfred Campbell. Issued in lettered paper wrapper. Contains 7 poems. Cover title. "Issued to his friends for the New Year, 1907. Ottawa, Canada. For private circulation only." Paperbound in deep green; printed in black; cream pages; handsewn with brick red thread.

A sheaf of winter lyrics

by Wilfred Campbell. Issued in lettered paper wrapper. Contains 7 poems. Cover title. "Issued to his friends for the New Year, 1907. Ottawa, Canada. For private circulation only." Paperbound in deep green; printed in black; cream pages; handsewn with brick red thread.

A sheaf of winter lyrics

by Wilfred Campbell. Issued in lettered paper wrapper. Contains 7 poems. Cover title. "Issued to his friends for the New Year, 1907. Ottawa, Canada. For private circulation only." Paperbound in deep green; printed in black; cream pages; handsewn with brick red thread.

A sheaf of winter lyrics

Issued in lettered paper wrapper. Contains 7 poems. Cover title "Issued to his friends for the New Year, 1907. Ottawa, Canada. For private circulation only." Paperbound in deep green; printed in black; cream pages; handsewn with brick red thread

A sermon in rhyme

A sermon in rhyme

Brown University

Printed in red, blue, gold and black on heavy paper in postcatd format; illuminated initial. Type-signed at end: J.H. Brown. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A sermon in rhyme

A sermon in rhyme

Brown University

Printed in red, blue, gold and black on heavy paper in postcatd format; illuminated initial. Type-signed at end: J.H. Brown. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A sermon in rhyme

A sermon in rhyme

Brown University

Printed in red, blue, gold and black on heavy paper in postcatd format; illuminated initial. Type-signed at end: J.H. Brown. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A series of five charred, blackened lumps

illustration: Ian Gardner ; text: Jonathan Williams. Broadsheet Printed in black and silver on white. Illustration by Ian Gardner of plate with black lumps.

A senator's review of the '93 Maine Senate

Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Broadside printed in dark blue and red on heavy white paper. On verso view of harbor in red, captioned in blue: Compliments of A.R. Nickerson, Boothbay Harbor, Me.