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 railroader's appeal

A railroader's appeal

Brown University

At head of title cut of nineteenth-century railroad train. Poem in four stanzas. At end of text: The bearer is offering these cards to raise money to start a small business to support himself and family. Please give what you can. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A railroader's appeal

A railroader's appeal

Brown University

At head of title cut of nineteenth-century railroad train. Poem in four stanzas. At end of text: The bearer is offering these cards to raise money to start a small business to support himself and family. Please give what you can. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A railroad boy's appeal

A railroad boy's appeal

Brown University

At head of title cut of railroad train on level ground. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: C. E. H. Price.--Whatever you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A railroad boy's appeal

A railroad boy's appeal

Brown University

At head of title cut of railroad train on level ground. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: C. E. H. Price.--Whatever you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A railroad boy's appeal

A railroad boy's appeal

Brown University

At head of title cut of railroad train on level ground. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: C. E. H. Price.--Whatever you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A railroad boy's appeal

A railroad boy's appeal

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper. At head of title cut of railroad train crossing trestle over river. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: C. E. H. Price.--Whatever you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A radical view of the Democratic Convention: July, 1868

Song ridicules the Democratic Convention and its chosen candidates, praising the Republican candidates Grant and Colfax. Song ridicules the Democratic Convention and its chosen candidates, praising the Republican candidates Grant and Colfax. At right of title caricature of two joined heads, one captioned: Nominated and the other, upside down, captioned: Defeated. These are probably Horatio Seymour, the Democratic nominee for president, and either the vice-presidential candidate F.P. Blair or one of the defeated candidates for the presidential nomination. To be sung to the tune: Wee Davy's barn. Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas with chorus beginning: Right fal the dal la, &c. At end of text below rule: By R.B. Nicol, 271 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

A quick study of a slow afternoon

Poem printed on ivory paper in one column; central part of text, in italics, superimposed on illustration in pale pink. Type signed at end of poem: Ruth Hulett. Issued as part of a portfolio by 20 participants at a 1978 Port Townsend Poetry Symposium; imprint information from dealer.

A question

A question

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on white silk, one poem on each side.. Type-signed at end of first poem: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A public nuisance

A public nuisance

Brown University

At head of title cut of walking man smoking cigar, the smoke of which, inscribed "Poison," surrounds the heads of other walkers. Poetry. At end of text: (Cut ... by courtesy Inter-State Narcotic Association, ... Chicago, Ill.) J.E.G. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing in the illustration.

A public nuisance

A public nuisance

Brown University

At head of title cut of walking man smoking cigar, the smoke of which, inscribed "Poison," surrounds the heads of other walkers. Poetry. At end of text: (Cut ... by courtesy Inter-State Narcotic Association, ... Chicago, Ill.) J.E.G. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing in the illustration.

A Psalme of David

A Psalme of David

Brown University

In lettered paper wrapper. "This setting of the 23rd Psalm is a type facsimile from The Bay Psalm book, printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640, the first book printed in North America. Copies ... have been printed on a 19th century acorn frame Stansbury toggle hand press in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of printing and publishing in North America by the Friends of the Museum of Printing, Inc."--Back cover.

A proclamation

A proclamation

Brown University

Processed copy of portion of a page of The Indianapolis Star, giving the text of proclamation by Governor Samuel M. Ralston.

A proclamation

A proclamation

Brown University

Processed copy of portion of a page of The Indianapolis Star, giving the text of proclamation by Governor Samuel M. Ralston.