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 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.

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.

A selection of 65 drawings by Robert Duncan

Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Printed in blue and black on cream paper. Across pages [3] and [3] drawing by Duncan of seated figure and part of another. Cover title.

A selection of 65 drawings by Robert Duncan

Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Printed in blue and black on cream paper. Across pages [3] and [3] drawing by Duncan of seated figure and part of another. Cover title.

A Sammy hike

A Sammy hike

Brown University

Tune: John Brown's body. At head of title: To New Hampshire Bristol "Boys" At end of text: ... by George Turner Phelps "Lazycroft"

A salute

A salute

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

A run of luck: the new sporting drama

written by Henry Pettitt and A. Harris ; mechanism, W.P. Prescott ; appointments, Jos. F. Sullivan ; light effects, George Sevey; musical director, N. Lothian. Includes list of performers; number and title of play acts. Contains advertisements. At head of title: Boston Theatre; Eugene Thompkins, proprietor and manager. Performance: "Boston, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1887" "Boston Theatre programme vol. XVII, no. 82"

A rumpus in Tophet

A rumpus in Tophet

Brown University

Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.

A rumpus in Tophet

A rumpus in Tophet

Brown University

Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.

A rumpus in Tophet

A rumpus in Tophet

Brown University

Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.

A robin pie

A robin pie

Brown University

Page 4 blank. On page 1 at head of title: Schaller Audubon Society for the protection of birds. Founded June, 1897. Poetry and prose; poem on page [3]

A returning spirit's answer

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Printed on heavy paper. Poem in four numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Not as oft as I might, Dear Lord, have done. At end of text: Copyright, 1907, by N.B. Chrisman.

A resolution

A resolution

Brown University

Euna Russell Mignault. Printed on heavy textured white paper. At head of title vignette of rose. Poem in ten lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A requiem

A requiem

Brown University

Silas W. Hazeltine. Printed on birch bark; irregular edges; initial block; same poem printed on verso. At left of author's name, in brackets: [35] Poem in seven four-line stanzas, each beginning: Rest, brother, rest! At end of text below type ornament section: "The Traveller's Dream & Other Poems" 1860. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.

A reply to Kipling's poem

Reply to Rudyard Kipling's poem The sons of Martha. Reply to Rudyard Kipling's poem The sons of Martha. by James Sinnott, Chatham, Illinois. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.

A remarkable story

A remarkable story

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; line of cherubs below title. Poem in 29 stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Printed in Dedham:--1807. Price 4 cents single. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

A remarkable dream

A remarkable dream

Brown University

Printed in three columns. At head of text: The following were the meditations of a Minister of Vermont .. Intended to be separated. With: The factor's garland--Dialogue between death and a lady.

A recognition: For Perley Cole

Printed in green on ivory paper. At end of text: Christmas, 1962 / May Sarton / Nelson, New Hampshire and Cambridge, Massachusetts.