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

The volunteers!

The volunteers!

Brown University

by Geo. G. B. DeWolfe. Within red and blue border of type ornaments, printed in blue in two columns divided by red single line. Illustration of unfurled United States flag below title.

The volunteer and emancipationist

Broadsheet; poetry printed in one and two columns. First poem (60 stanzas) printed in two columns; second poem on verso in one column. Expanded and altered version of The volunteer (Wolf 2472), of which, in different sequence, all verses are retained.

The volunteer

The volunteer

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Poem in 22 four-line stanzas. All verses, in different sequence, are contained in: The volunteer and emancipationist. Imprint date suggested by date of expanded version.

The voice within

The voice within

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. At end of text: New Year's Day 1910.

The voice of the voiceless

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poet Laureate of Humanity. Broadsheet; one poem on each side. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The voice of the pine

The voice of the pine

Brown University

Photograph of author. At end of text: From "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verse." Publication date from publication date of All in a garden fair.

The voice of liberty

The voice of liberty

Brown University

by Orrin E. Harmon, Liberal, Mo. July 4th, 1902. Cut of American flag on cover, illustration on cover and text within single line red border.

The voice of God, in the terrors of earthquakes: being a poetical composition occasioned by the repeated shocks, whic...

Printed in three columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 756,749) Line of type ornaments (Reilly 726) at head of text; single line at end. At end of text: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Queen-Street. 1755. Above address was given for Edes, Gill and Kneeland in 1755. Place of publication and printers determined by internal evidence and type ornaments. Not in Bristol or Shipton Mooney.

The voice of Belgium

The voice of Belgium

Brown University

words and music by Irving Berlin. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 6] Cover illustration: drawing of refugees, allegorical figure and soldiers / Al. W. Barbelle.

The visitation

The visitation

Brown University

Caption title. Poem in 39 stanzas printed in black on orange paper. Typesigned at end: -Len Randolph 3 July 1976 Port Townsend, WA. In left margin, printed horizontically: Broadsheet No. 3 Second Coming Press.

The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.

The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.

The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.

The vision in my dreams: song

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with twelve-line chorus beginning: My soldier lad, my soldier lad.

The vision in my dreams: song

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with twelve-line chorus beginning: My soldier lad, my soldier lad.

The vision

The vision

Brown University

by C.W. Never-est. At end of text "Hamden, Ct., Oct. 22, 1851", followed by humorous advertisements. A parody of The vision of death, by C.W. Everest.

The Virginia mother

The Virginia mother

Brown University

Poem in 11 stanzas printed in two columns. At head of text: A pathetic war poem of the late rebellion. Recited by Comrade Robert Pyne at Installation of Steadman Camp, Sons of Veterans, Jan. '92. Presented with compliments of Nathaniel Lyon Post, G. A. R., Hartford, Conn. At end of text: Edna Dean Proctor. First line: My home is sad and drear tonight.

The violet crown

The violet crown

Brown University

translated by Marion M. Miller. At head of title portrait of an ancient bust supposed to represent the Lesbian poetess with caption: "Muse immortal, Sappho!" At end of text: From "The Songs of Sappho," by Miller and Robinson.

The vine is growing and dying

Printed on heavy white paper with deckled lower edge. Title from first line. Poem in one four-line stanza and one six-line stanza. Type-signed at end of poem: Richard Murian. Colophon at end: Printed by the author, South Hall Press 1971.

The village blacksmith (2)

Longfellow. Postcard printed in brown and red. Text on recto printed below against ground of reproduction of colored photograph of two blacksmiths working. Six-line stanza of poetry. In lower right corner on recto: Bamforth & Co. Printed vertically in left margin on verso: Bamforth & Co., Publishers, Holmfirth (England) and New York. Series No. 4533/2. Printed in England. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Longfellow. Printed in sepia on glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of man standing beside anvil. First six lines of poem. "Bamforth's life model series, (England) N.Y.C."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Longfellow. Printed in sepia on glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of man standing beside anvil. First six lines of poem. "Bamforth's life model series, (England) N.Y.C."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.