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 farewell song

A farewell song

Brown University

Poetry in 9 numbered four-line stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures 23.0 x 13.8 cm. Printed with: The Church (First line: What fair one is this from the wilderness travelling). Meant to be separated.

A farewell hymn: on the death of Miss Polly Goold

Poem in sixteen six-line stanzas printed in two columns. At head of title wood-engraving of the Virgin in glory also used on broadsides authoritatively attributed to the printer Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; most printed not later than 1814.

A face: a poem

A face: a poem

Brown University

by Marianne Craig Moore. "This poem was in 'Horizon' (London) for October 1947. [Paragraph mark] About 2500 copies pulled by hand from Romanée type on Hand and Arrows paper. Cummington, Massachusetts. June 1949. WW & HD finx. & fecerunt"--P. [4]. "WW" was Wightman Williams, "HD" was Harry Duncan. "Printed ... especially for inclusion [as an insert] in Part seven of The New colophon"--New colophon, v. 2, pt. 7 (Sept. 1949), p. 236. French fold, issued in red or gray-blue paper folder; cream paper printed in orange (rule only) and black. Cf. First printings. First line: "I am not treacherous, callous, jealous, superstitious.

A ew thoughts compos'd on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden,: wife of Mr. Nathanael Fessenden, of Cambridge,...

Twenty-two numbered four-line stanzas printed in two columns within mourning border and with heavy black line separating columns. With a relief cut of a coffin (not in Reilly) in the midst of the title Brown University copy mutilated, lacking title and coffin illustration. For an account of this broadside see Ola Winslow, American broadside verse (New Haven, 1930) p. 46. An account of Mrs. Fessenden's accidental death was published in the Boston Gazette of June 4, 1770 John Kneeland and Seth Adams printed together at this address from 1765 to 1772 Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Mutilated with loss of title and coffin; separate fragment with part of title; mended with tape on verso, on which is ms. name, "Miss Berea Adams, Medway."

A dying soldier

A dying soldier

Brown University

Pages [4] blank. Cover within ornamental borders; rosette under title. On cover: By Harry Kalich with Mutt & Jeff Company.

A dreamer cometh

A dreamer cometh

Brown University

Printed on wheat-colored paper in two columns. At left of title, vignette of burning lamp on stand; at end of text below signature vignette of bird and leaf spray. At head of text: "Behold, this dreamer!"--Bible. Poem in six six-line stanzas. At end of text: Walter J. Coates Feb. 6, 1919.

A dream, and Dr. Watts' Ode on the Day of Judgment

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.

A dream, and Dr. Watts' Ode on the Day of Judgment

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.

A dream in brick: for Boston

Poetry. Printed on card stock. At left of poem rectangular illustration of brick wall. Type-signed at end of poem: Jerry Ratch, printed by Julia Watson. Colophon below illustration: Free 9/70 Posse Press 1.

A dream

A dream

Brown University

Printed in two columns.

A dream

A dream

Brown University

Printed in two columns.

A doleful ditty

A doleful ditty

Brown University

by Mr. Mors, (deceased) Within coffin-shaped black border, with cut of single coffin above border. Beneath bottom border, cut of boy in graveyard. Quotations from Hoyle and Shakespeare at head of text.

A dissertation on the Rev. Jonas Clarke's seat at Lexington

Poetry and prose. Printed in blue on cream-colored paper; type ornaments on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] At head of title on page [1]: The following poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware. It was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Date from acquisition date by previous owner. First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.

A dissertation on the Rev. Jonas Clarke's seat at Lexington

Poetry and prose. At head of title on page [1]: The enclosed poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware, whose daughter presented it to Lexington Historical Society, 1898. The poem was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Reproduction of photograph of the house on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.

A dishonest man

A dishonest man

Brown University

Poem in eight four-line stanzas, ending with a four-line Epitaph on a man dead to all moral honesty. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A design for angels

A design for angels

Brown University

Margaret Dole McCall. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Two poems. At end of text: Please tune in on each Christmas ray & Happy New Year from Margaret Dole McCall.

A day lost!

A day lost!

Brown University

At head of title: Printed in Rev. Wm. S. Barnes' Paper. At head of text: (A writer says, "that day is lost on which some good deed is not performed.")