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

Why Adam sinned

Why Adam sinned

Brown University

words and music by Alex Rogers For voice and piano At head of title: A quaint idea set to music "Featured by Aida Overton Walker" Title page illustration: snake offering apple to statue of Eve on a pedestal; cameo photo. of Aida Overton Walker Advertisement for another song (with 1st p. of music) on p. [2]: Nobody / music by Bert A. Williams Advertisement for 7 songs from the musical Bandana Land (with incipits) on p. [6]: Fas' fas' world; Late hours; Just the same; Bon bon buddy; It's hard to love somebody; Bandana Land; Dinah

Why

Why

Brown University

Title within single line border.

Why

Why

Brown University

Title within single line border.

Whose I am and whom I serve

1 broadsheet. At head of text: Acts XXVII:23. At end of text: Published by J.A. Whipple, No. 3 Hamilton Place, Boston, U.S.A.

Whose I am and whom I serve

1 broadsheet. At head of text: Acts XXVII:23. At end of text: Published by J.A. Whipple, No. 3 Hamilton Place, Boston, U.S.A.

Whose father was he?

Whose father was he?

Brown University

Poetry and prose, printed in one and two columns within single line border with corner ornaments. At head of poem: Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-three, by Wm. H. Hayward, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland. At end of poem within border: *Since ascertained to have been Sergt. A. Humerton, Co. C, 154th N.Y. Vols.; whose family now resides in Cattaragus County, New York. Imprint in lower margin below border: Slater, Print. Baltimore.

Who's that knocking at the door

as composed and sung by Wm. Whitlock. For voice and piano. Caption title. Additional verses: p. [5] Cover illustration: lithograph of Afro-American actors on stage, one playing banjo and the other dancing. "Lith. of E. Jones & G.W. Newman, 128 Fulton St."--Cover.

Who's afraid of the Kaiser?

by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers trimming the Kaiser's moustache / Starmer.

Who'll dig a grave for him?

Within double line border, printed in two columns. On verso: Stereoscopic view of man digging a grave.

Who'll dig a grave for him?

Within double line border, printed in two columns. On verso: Stereoscopic view of man digging a grave.

Who'll dig a grave for him?

Within double line border, printed in two columns. On verso: Stereoscopic view of man digging a grave.

Who, indeed?

Who, indeed?

Brown University

Attack on Woodrow Wilson. Attack on Woodrow Wilson. Poem in 19 four-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because of mention of the "conclave at Versailles." Poem has been attributed to William E. Foster because a typescript now at Brown University was found in a book from Foster's estate at the American Antiquarian Society.

Who will face the foe?

Who will face the foe?

Brown University

Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text: Member Temperance Praying Band. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Who shall roll away the stone?

Broadsheet. Within single-line border on each side. Text of hymn in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text: Church herald. In lower margin on recto: Church of the Transfiguration New York. At lower left within border on recto: 49. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Who seeks to please

Who seeks to please

Brown University

Translated by George P. Philes. Cut of Lorenzo de Medici statue at head of title.

Who seeks salvation

Who seeks salvation

Brown University

At head of text: Who seek salvation must first learn the lesson of kindness.

Who seeks salvation

Who seeks salvation

Brown University

At head of text: Who seek salvation must first learn the lesson of kindness.

Who seeks salvation

Who seeks salvation

Brown University

At head of text: Who seek salvation must first learn the lesson of kindness.

Who put the L in Kelly

Who put the L in Kelly

Brown University

At upper right: Words and music by J.E. Kelly, 4819 Chicago St., Seattle, Wash. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: O, who put the big double "L" in O'Kelly.