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

Wilhelm's celebration

Wilhelm's celebration

Brown University

Within ornamental border. To be sung to the tune: They go wild, simply wild over me.

Wilhelm's celebration

Wilhelm's celebration

Brown University

Within ornamental border. To be sung to the tune: They go wild, simply wild over me.

Wild Turkey sampler

Wild Turkey sampler

Brown University

Poetry. Cover title on page [1] printed vertically. Text printed in black and purple on white paper. Illustration of twig with leaves in light brown above title on cover. Colophon with printer's mark on page [4]: Turkey Press; 34 Fort Ave.; Cranston, R.I. 02905. Press printed in Rhode Island in 1975 and 1976.

Wild rose

Wild rose

Brown University

At end of text: A few copies of this leaflet, with bookplate of Marion MacKaye designed by Gordon Craig, have been printed, in July, 1939,... (German translation follows.) German translation by Albert Steffen. English and German on facing pages.

Wild Irish boy

Wild Irish boy

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornament sections. At head of title, in brackets: 374. At end of text vignette of musical instruments. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with last line of each stanza repeated. Colophon at end below curvilinear line, within lower border: H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher, N.Y. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wild Irish boy

Wild Irish boy

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. At head of title: 374. At head of text: G. & M. Morse, Song Publishers, 256 Seneca St. Buffalo, N.Y. Text of song in five four-line stanzas, with last line of each stanza repeated, followed by verse advertisement for Morses' songs and recitations beginning: You asked me to write a small poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wild geese flying

Wild geese flying

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red. Cover title. On page [3] poem in 19 lines. "Christmas 1966"--p. 1.

Wild geese flying

Wild geese flying

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red. Cover title. On page [3] poem in 19 lines. "Christmas 1966"--p. 1.

Wild geese flying

Wild geese flying

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red. Cover title. On page [3] poem in 19 lines. "Christmas 1966"--p. 1.

Wild ducks: a poem

Wild ducks: a poem

Brown University

by Stephen Sandy. Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. Cover title.

Wild buzzers attacking

Wild buzzers attacking

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Within wide black border. Printed in white on lower border at right: John M. Bennett LBP75.

Why?

Why?

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Why?

Why?

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Why?

Why?

Brown University

(Guy Fitch Phelps) Pages [2] and [3] blank. Advertising of books by Fitch Phelps & photoreproduction of author on page [4]

Why! husband! I have been so anxious

Title from first line. Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poetry in 9 eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning "Now we've met, we must be merry.

Why Mrs. Jones admired her neighbor's house

Within double-line border with crossed corners. Poem in five stanzas of varying length advertising Diamond Mixed Gloss Paint. At end of text: Manufactured by J.W. Walker, Brothers & Co., Cincinnati, O. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.