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

"Ower true tale"

"Ower true tale"

Brown University

Broadsheet. Colored illustration captioned "Gull Cliff", and signed in print "Bufford, Boston" on recto. Seven poems, printed in red in two columns divided by rule, advertising Hunt's Coal and Wood, printed on verso. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

"Ower true tale"

"Ower true tale"

Brown University

Broadsheet. Colored illustration captioned "Gull Cliff", and signed in print "Bufford, Boston" on recto. Seven poems, printed in red in two columns divided by rule, advertising Hunt's Coal and Wood, printed on verso. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

"Never again": a peace playlet

by Louise Aimee Patterson. 1 broadsheet; printed in brown on buff paper. Folded into thirds creating six pages; outside fold set up as mailer "Private mailing Card" with place for stamp; brief author/title information on left.

"May bell"

"May bell"

Brown University

words and music by F. Prescott Boorum. At head of text: "The Quaker Oats", "Souvenir Song"

"May bell"

"May bell"

Brown University

words and music by F. Prescott Boorum. At head of text: "The Quaker Oats", "Souvenir Song"