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.
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Items in this collection

When I was a bachelor I lived by myself

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of thin bachelor and fat, smiling husband with his wife and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of courting couple and of Ko-nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated container. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

When I see you I see red white and blue

words by Grant Clarke ; music by Archie Gottler. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a girl saluting a silhouette of a soldier / Barbelle.

When I saw sweet Nellie home

Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: When I saw sweet Nellie home. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. This edition not in Wolf, American song sheets. Ascribed to Frances Kyle; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When I leave the U.S.A.

When I leave the U.S.A.

Brown University

lyric [and title design] by Arthur Arnold Burden ; music by V.A.L. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. "Dedicated to the Boys 'Over There'"--Cover. Cover illustration: U.S. flag, Uncle Sam with bugle; photograph of A.A. Burden and B.B. Benning.

When I heard the learn'd astronomer

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. At head of title on page [3] drawing of astronomical globe captioned: Sapiens dominabitur astris. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

When I had a uniform on

When I had a uniform on

Brown University

words and music by Cole Porter. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [10] Cover illustration: woman riding stork / Lionel S. Reiss; photograph of Raymond Hitchcock.

When I grow up I'm going to be a soldier

words by Jean Havez ; music by Gus Edwards. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Cuddles & Georgie. From musical revue: Gus Edwards band-box Revue. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Cuddles and Georgie; drawing of a girl carrying two band-boxes / Edgar Keller, '17.

When I go

When I go

Brown University

Poem on page [1] printed in calligraphy, perhaps reproduction of poet's handwriting. Reproduction of uncaptioned photograph of Laing on page [4] Includes short prose account by Ramon Guthrie of Laing's later life in "the Dartmouth area" and recent death. Place and date of publication suggested because of references to location near Dartmouth and to poet's death.

When I get back: (from over there)

words and music by DeWitt H. Morse and William H. Farrell. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. soldier and woman / Walton. Photograph on p. [4]: Mary Maurice.

When I get back to my American blighty

words by Arthur Fields ; music by Theodore Morse. For voice and piano. Caption title. "To my cousin Michael Cohen, and pals Teddy Meyer and Victor Hilgers." Advertisement for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier embracing Statue of Liberty. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

When I dream of home and mother: song

by Emma I. Di Grado. For voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Arthur L. Sherman. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a man looking at a picture and thinking of home / ES Fisher.

When I come home to you

When I come home to you

Brown University

words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Frank H. Grey. For medium voice and piano in E♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in F major, low voice in G major.

When I come home to you

When I come home to you

Brown University

words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Frank H. Grey. For medium voice and piano in E♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in F major, low voice in G major.

When I come back

When I come back

Brown University

by Joseph Miller. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: landscape with trees and water.

When green-eyed Minerva asked Paris to serve her

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Title from first line of first song. Cambridge suggested as place of publication because second song is to be sung to the tune of Fair Harvard. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When God turns the trenches to gardens again

words and music by Gilbert C. Tennant. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other music: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: a garden with weapons in foreground.

When Germany's had her fall

words and music by Rosamond H. Lefavour. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to The Winchester, Mass., Boys in Service" Cover illustration: drawing of ruins and Statue of Liberty.

When fifty years had passed away

Title from first line. At head of text: In conversation with the "old clerk" ... to be read at the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Central Baptist Church of Norwich, Conn., Sept. 14, 1890.

When father raids the pantry

Printed in red and black. Illustration on pages [2-3] of old man and cat. On page [4] advertisement for baked goods. Date from internal evidence.

When father raids the pantry

Printed in red and black. Illustration on pages [2-3] of old man and cat. On page [4] advertisement for baked goods. Date from internal evidence.