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

Three facetious sonnets

Three facetious sonnets

Brown University

by Hamilton B. Wood read at the 158th Annual Meeting of the Worcester Fire Society. Poetry. Cover title. Date suggested by internal evidence.

Three cheers for the lads of the Navy

by Gordon V. Thompson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: ships at sea; photograph of Gordon V. Thompson. Includes "encore verse" for the Army.

Three characters

Three characters

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Cover title. Below title on page [1]: Printed and published by Arthur Head in his Bookstore at 21 Broadway, New Haven, Ct. 1921. On page [4] at end of text: Broadway Broadside No. 4. 25 copieeis [i.e. copies] printed.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts on the Holy Communion

by Arthur Cleveland Coxe. Printed in two columns with last stanza at bottom center. At head of title a cross. "By Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D.D., L.L.D. Bishop of Western New York." Poem in seven six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from the period of Coxe's bishopric.

Thoughts on government

Thoughts on government

Brown University

Henry David Thoreau. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Initial block. Caption title. At end of text: East Calais, June 2, 1919. From "Mood songs," 1921.

Thoughts on a stormy Christmas

Within red line border. At head of title: Peace-On-Earth Broadside. Written and published for a few of my friends at Christmas, 1941.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

Brown University

Poet asks aid because of loss of leg when a newsboy by falling from a train. Poet asks aid because of loss of leg when a newsboy by falling from a train. Printed on heavy paper within ornamental border at top and bottom and triple-line border at sides. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Jno. W. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Variants of this poem exist naming other authors and other causes for physical handicap; cf. Brown University items HB2769 and HB31271.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

Brown University

Poet asks aid because of amputated limbs. Poet asks aid because of amputated limbs. Printed on heavy paper in blue within ornamental border. At head of text: Composed by E.C. Osborn. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: Price--Anything you please to give. E.C. Osborn. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Variants of this poem exist naming other authors and other causes for physical handicap; cf. Brown University items HB16543 and HB31271.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

Brown University

Poet claims to have been thrown from a train and crippled, and asks for money. Poet claims to have been thrown from a train and crippled, and asks for money. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text, within border: Harry Walters. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Same poem used for begging under other names.

Thoughts of by-gone days

Illustration of steam train with landscape at head of title. At end of text: F.B. Wilson. Price--anything you wish to give.

Thoughts in verse

Thoughts in verse

Brown University

by Maurice Swabey, M.A. Vicar of St. Thomas, Exeter. Within single line border. Includes five poems. Suggested range of publication dates because poems refer to events in 1880's, the latest being the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, 1885.

Thoughts in verse

Thoughts in verse

Brown University

by Maurice Swabey, M.A. Vicar of St. Thomas, Exeter. Within single line border. Includes five poems. Suggested range of publication dates because poems refer to events in 1880's, the latest being the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, 1885.