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 ballad of the road

A ballad of the road

Brown University

Poetry. Type-signed at end: Eleanor Custis Shallcross. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Santa Claus

A ballad of Santa Claus

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: Composed by Henry Van Dyke for the occasion of the annual dinner of the St. Nicholas Society, December 6th, 1907.

A baby's death

A baby's death

Brown University

Printed in dark and light green on cream paper. Illustration of flowering sprays at top and upper left and right. Six four-line stanzas selected and rearranged from Swinburne's poem. At end of text: A. C. Swinbourne [i.e. Swinburne] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

91 words for Joanna

91 words for Joanna

Brown University

Printed in black and violet on heacy ivory paper with deckled lower edge within violet double-line border with ornamental corners. Each line of poem except last contains five words; last line one word. Type-signed at end: Michael McClure. Place and date of imprint from Lepper, p. 302.

69

69

Brown University

Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce. March 20, 1947.

600,000 more: we are coming Father Abram!

For medium voice with SATB chorus Cover title Poem originally published in 1862 as We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong, by James Sloan Gibbons

50th anniversary, 44th Reg. Mass. Vols

On cover: [Portraits of] Field and Staff officers of the 44th Regiment, M.V.M. 1862. On verso [Group photograph of] Line officers of the 44th regt., U.S. Vols., 1862.

47 Ann Street is the place to sell your rags, paper and old metals: in large or small quantities

Broadsheet. At center of title on recto wood-engraving of ragged woman bringing bundle to man ringing handbell and calling out: Rags, paper, rags, watched by well-dressed woman with parasol. On verso text of song entitled: Shoo fly, don't bodder me! beginning: I think I hear de angels sing. Colophon on verso: G.A. Whitehorne, Printer, 119 Fulton & 42 Ann Streets. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

4 poems

4 poems

Brown University

Andrew Crozier. Caption title. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

4 boats, 3 people

4 boats, 3 people

Brown University

White paper printed in two columns in black, blue-green, and violet-blue in postcard format.