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 man saw a ball of gold

Ron Padgett. Pages [3]-[4] blank. Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper; text in black. On page [1] reproduction of color photograph of gilt-framed painting of seated Christ. On page [2] poem in two stanzas of varying length.

A man of kindness, to his beast is kind

Printed on glossy card stock within chain border of type ornament sections; two holes for hanging in upper margin. Title from first line. Eight-line poem. At end of text: Shaker Home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A lover disregards names

by Diane Wakoski. Poem. Printed in gray on orange paper; with rubricated initial. First line: Do people live up. Title from verso. Originally issued as part of Burning Deck postcards : The first ten.

A love song

A love song

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Text of song in 17 four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: And yet I hate to let you know. In lower margin below line of type ornaments: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street, Providence, where are kept for sale 200 other kinds. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1826 to 1836.

A lost poem

A lost poem

Brown University

Of this first printing, one hundred copies have been printed for the friends of Harvety Taylor

A long tired poem

A long tired poem

Brown University

Broadsheet; poetry; on tan paper. At end of poem: John Sinclair, Detroit House of Correction 15 June 1966. At end of text: free poems among friends / s.f. contributions are needed & should be sent direct to the Detroit Artist's Workshop ... "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p. [3])"

A long fight, a strong fight

words by Leona Upton ; music by Robert Armstrong. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Parts available for: band, orchestra.

A living gift He gave

A living gift He gave

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At right of title cut of head of Jesus Christ. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: Ruth Prentice. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A little whiskey now and then

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. Title from first line of recto. Poem in seven four-line stanzas advertises drinks sold by C.J.C., probably C.J. Collins. On verso advertisement for hotel beginning: Cottage Hotel, Wells Bridge, N.Y., C.J. Collins, Proprietor. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A little talk with Jesus

1 broadsheet. Printed on blue paper. At end of text: Published by J.A. Whipple, at the Believers' Book Rooms, Boston, U.S.A.

A little pilgrim, or, Jesus paid the fare

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem on recto. On verso, headed: Which route will you take? parallel mock advertisements for the Great Salvation R.R. and the Ruination Railroad. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.