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 holiday jingle

A holiday jingle

Brown University

Printed on colored paper. At head of text: (Author unknown)

A hillside thaw

A hillside thaw

Brown University

Robert Frost. On verso: The unbound anthology/ The Poets' Guild/ Christodora House, 147 Avenue B New York City. From "New Hampshire" By Robert Frost with permission... From The Unbound anthology, published by The Poets' Guild. Reprinted from New Hampshire.

A heart for children

A heart for children

Brown University

Publisher's advertisement for poetry book A heart for children, by M.F. Powers. Publisher's advertisement for poetry book A heart for children, by M.F. Powers. Printed in black and teal blue on glossy heavy paper against cream ground within teal-blue border. Type-signed at end of poem: Margaret Fishback Powers. Date and place of publication from book advertised.

A heap o' livin'

A heap o' livin'

Brown University

First line: It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home.

A happy New Year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the President and Congress

Printed in two columns divided by single rule. At head of title two wood-engravings of ships. At head of text: A song composed on the arrival of the frigates in Boston, yesterday, (December 31, 1812,) with a good supply of the Ready Rhino. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Columbia's bright name then with glory shall sound. At end of text: Printed by N. Coverly, Jun. Price 3 cents.

A happy New Year to Commodore Rodgers, or, Huzza for the President and Congress

Printed in two columns divided by single rule. At head of title two wood-engravings of ships. At head of text: A song composed on the arrival of the frigates in Boston, yesterday, (December 31, 1812,) with a good supply of the Ready Rhino. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Columbia's bright name then with glory shall sound. At end of text: Printed by N. Coverly, Jun. Price 3 cents.

A happy meeting for the following churches and congregations in Providence, R.I

Within border of type ornaments. Below title cut of sheep and lamb captioned: Meekness. At end of text: Providence, April 25th, 1872. Includes text of hymn in seven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: That will be sweet, when we meet. At head of text list of Afro-American churches in Providence, with their pastors' names. Hymn written by "G.B. Thomas, of Lexington, Ky., the preacher's friend." Thomas was a traveling Afro-American fund raiser accused of swindling.

A gypsy song

A gypsy song

Brown University

Printed on page [1] only. Hand colored by W. MacDonald for Miss A.E. Fraser.

A Greyport legend

A Greyport legend

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in sepia on tan paper. Includes two poems. On page [3] concert program headed: The homestead concert. Groton, Massachusetts. December twenty-first, 1899. Mrs. Lawrence, Miss Lawrence and James Lawrence, Jr. are among the performers; one of them may be the J. L. who wrote the second poem.

A Greyport legend

A Greyport legend

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in sepia on tan paper. Includes two poems. On page [3] concert program headed: The homestead concert. Groton, Massachusetts. December twenty-first, 1899. Mrs. Lawrence, Miss Lawrence and James Lawrence, Jr. are among the performers; one of them may be the J. L. who wrote the second poem.