Wooden nickel
Brown University
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:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
Wooden coin from Mini Magic Museum, Watertown, Mass.
Brown University
Woodbury mountain
Brown University
Within ornamental border, printed in two columns. At end of text: Craftsbury, Vt., September 29th, 1897.
Wood's Household Magazine. Promotes knowledge, virtue and temperance: long and favorably known as the great dollar monthly
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Poem advertising magazine, with printed signature "Postmaster"at end. Within double ruled border.
Wood inlaid cribbage board from Mt. Washington, NH
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Wood board with slots for coins
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Wonderful woman
Brown University
Page [2] blank. Printed on heavy paper. On page [1] caricature of woman sitting up in bed beside man. Greeting card with fold at top. Cover title. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Wonderful night
Brown University
Christmas hymn in six stanzas. Date suggested by use in program published in Providence, R.I. in 1871 entitled: Hymns for the First Baptist Sabbath School (cf. RB971/1871)
Won't you step into my parlor?
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Title from first line. Processed copy. Mimeograph. At end of text: Aesthetic Barber Shop--126 East 34th Street, cor Lex.
Won't you step into my parlor?
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Title from first line. Processed copy. Mimeograph. At end of text: Aesthetic Barber Shop--126 East 34th Street, cor Lex.
Won't you step into my parlor?
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Title from first line. Processed copy. Mimeograph. At end of text: Aesthetic Barber Shop--126 East 34th Street, cor Lex.
Won't you buy a war stamp: song
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lyric by Harold Atteridge ; music by Ray Perkins. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The passing show of 1918. Advertisement for "Oh you vampire girls" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman dancing on moon. Buy a war stamp bye and bye.
Won't you buy a war stamp: song
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lyric by Harold Atteridge ; music by Ray Perkins. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The passing show of 1918. Advertisement for "Oh you vampire girls" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: woman dancing on moon. Buy a war stamp bye and bye.
Won't you be the same to me
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Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper withrounded corners in postcard format; text on recto in black on gold ground. At head of title colored illustration of couple outdoors. Title from first line of couplet. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Won't you be the same to me
Brown University
Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper withrounded corners in postcard format; text on recto in black on gold ground. At head of title colored illustration of couple outdoors. Title from first line of couplet. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Won't you be the same to me
Brown University
Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper withrounded corners in postcard format; text on recto in black on gold ground. At head of title colored illustration of couple outdoors. Title from first line of couplet. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Woman's rights
Brown University
Manuscript facsimile of poem; within single line border. Different version from the one published in Her Miscellaneous writings. At end of text: Lynn, Oct. 1874. M.B. Glover.
Woman's rights
Brown University
Manuscript facsimile of poem; within single line border. Different version from the one published in Her Miscellaneous writings. At end of text: Lynn, Oct. 1874. M.B. Glover.
Woman's prayer
Brown University
Mrs. S. M. J. Henry. Poetry. Poem tells how drunkard's widow prays at tavern door. Date from internal evidence; difference of letter in one initial probably a mistake. At end of text: Faith Words Press, Worcester, Mass. First line: 'Twas a widow's home and a winter's night.
Woman's America
Brown University
To be sung to the tune: America. At head of text: Man, the so-called "lord of creation," used to sing "My country." Woman, the truly called "crown of creation," now sings "Our country."
Woman, dear woman! in whose name
Brown University
Title from first line. At head of text: To.
Woman, dear woman! in whose name
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Title from first line. At head of text: To.
Woman, dear woman! in whose name
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Title from first line. At head of text: To.
Woman suffrage songs
Brown University
Broadsheet. Contains text of eleven songs printed in two columns, beginning with Taxation without representation. Authors include Julia Mills Dunn, A. Estabrook, Rebecca N. Hazard, John W. Hutchinson, Caroline A. Mason, D. Snow, Catharine A.F. Stebbins and Katie T. Woods. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the presence of imitations of Civil War songs.
Woman
Brown University
Text within scroll with colored floral design at head.
Woman
Brown University
Text within scroll with colored floral design at head.