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

Written at Gettysburg

Written at Gettysburg

Brown University

At head of text: The following thoughts seemed so appropriate at the occasion of the Consecration of the Soldiers' Cemetery, at Gettysburg, Pa. .. First line: 'Tis holy ground.

Write in Bill Miller for mayor of Berkeley '67

Broadsheet folded to create [6] panels. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of bearded man surrounded by policemen; on other pages collage of reproductions of photographs and drawings, including portraits of the Beatles, Sitting Bull, General Custer and others. Cover title. Includes poetry.

Write home to Mother often, soldier boy

words & music by Emmett J. Welch. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier writing letter in trench / Starmer.

Write a sweet letter back home: song

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Vignette of flower in pot below title on page [1] Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with nine-line chorus beginning: Oh! write a sweet letter back home.

Write

Write

Brown University

Printed on heavy cream-colored paper. Poem in four four-line stanzas separated by rows of type ornaments. Type-signed at end: By Wm. King Halikman. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Writ by the Chorister, as first aid to the toastmaster: To be sung just before each of the following gentlemen speak

Broadsheet printed on heavy brown paper. Contains text of seven short songs to introduce speeches by professors and other dignitaries and, on verso, text of four Brown University songs and one other song. First song on recto is entitled: For Rev. O.P. Gifford. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and death date of O.P. Gifford, one of the speakers.

Wrestling Jacob

Wrestling Jacob

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Published by the American Tract Society ..

Would you rather be a colonel with an eagle on your shoulder, or a private with a chicken on your knee?

words by Sidney D. Mitchell ; music by Archie Gottler. For voice and piano. Caption title. Successfully sung by: Eddie Cantor. From musical revue: Ziegfeld follies of 1918. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Eddie Cantor; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, quartette.

Would you like to change from Miss to Mrs?

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in red, brown and green, on verso in black. At head of text caricature of elderly couple. First line same as title. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; Albert Von Tilzer wrote the music. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

Worry

Worry

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in red and brown with rubricated initial block.