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

When the old boat heads for home

by Earl Fuller. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: ship at sea / Walton.

When the old boat heads for home

by Earl Fuller. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers waving from ship and an eagle / EW.

When the moon is shining somewhere in France

by Frederick Rath. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Col. George Vidmer. Advertisement for "Waiting for you": p. 2-3; "Play my wedding march in ragtime" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of battlefield at night / Starmer.

When the moon is shining somewhere in France

by Frederick Rath. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Col. George Vidmer. Advertisement for "Waiting for you": p. 2-3; "Play my wedding march in ragtime" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of battlefield at night / Starmer.

When the Lusitania went down

by Charles McCarron and Nat. Vincent. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [6]

When the logs are burning free

Printed in gold and colors within green inner and outer borders on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial blocks; gold horizontal rules between lines of text; gilt edges. Illustration of stylized flames on gold ground between borders. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of poem: Henry Van Dyke. A glad Christmas-tide. In lower margin: Taken by permission from "Music and other poems." 1904 - Charles Scribner's Sons. "No. 883. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When the lilies bloom in France again

words by Robert Levenson ; music by George L. Cobb. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4] Cover illustration: a garden, with lilies in foreground / Starmer.

When the kaiser does the goose-step to a good old American rag

lyric by Jack Frost ; music by Harold Neander. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "If you've never been in dreamland" and other songs, printed in green ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm, printed in red and green ink.

When the kaiser does the goose-step to a good old American rag

lyric by Jack Frost ; music by Harold Neander. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "If you've never been in dreamland" and other songs, printed in green ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm, printed in red and green ink.

When the fleet comes sailing home

lyric by Carl M. Legg ; music by T. Jay Flanagan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: two women and a boy waving to approaching ships.

When the eagle screams, hurrah!: song

by Edmond Dallas. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Gen. John J. Pershing. Cover illustration: drawing of American eagle / ESF.