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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

To my teachers

To my teachers

Brown University

At end of text: Season's Greetings, 1957; John, Doris, Johnny, Evan and Margaret Holmes. Border of type ornaments at top and bottom. White paper printed in black and orange-red; printed as a holiday greeting.

To my pet

To my pet

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman beside man on ladder on first, woman playing guitar and man sitting on wall on second, standing man and woman on third, and woman looking at reflection of herself and of man on fourth; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my pet

To my pet

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman beside man on ladder on first, woman playing guitar and man sitting on wall on second, standing man and woman on third, and woman looking at reflection of herself and of man on fourth; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my pet

To my pet

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman beside man on ladder on first, woman playing guitar and man sitting on wall on second, standing man and woman on third, and woman looking at reflection of herself and of man on fourth; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my pet

To my pet

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman beside man on ladder on first, woman playing guitar and man sitting on wall on second, standing man and woman on third, and woman looking at reflection of herself and of man on fourth; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my only son

To my only son

Brown University

At head of text: On his thirteenth birthday, April 12, 1855, with a music stand for his violin.

To my neglected friend

To my neglected friend

Brown University

At head of title: Reprinted from The Evangelical, Harrisburg, Pa., April 25, 1899. At end of text: East Northfield, Mass. December 5, 1898.