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

What's the news?

What's the news?

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single rule. At head of text: The special interest of these lines arises from the circumstance that the author ... was insane on every point except that of religion .. At end of text: Issued by the New-York Young Men's Christian Association. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What'll you have?

What'll you have?

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red and blue on white paper napkin with scalloped edges. At right of title illustration of blue ribbon badge inscribed in white: Pabst Blue Ribbon. On page [4] text and music of Pabst beer advertising jingle. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What word for man?

What word for man?

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. On verso: ... Proceeds from this card go to the work for peace of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, N.Y. Pages [2,4] blank.

What wonderful things we have planned

Title from first line. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Margaret E. Sangster. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What women want

What women want

Brown University

Advertisement in verse for the American Rubber shoe. At foot of verso: Julius Bien & Co., N.Y. Printed and illustrated in shades of brown and white on card stock. Illustration: woman in period dress with umbrella, displaying rubber boot, in shoe store setting. On verso: Prose advertisement for rubber products in general; text has caption: Our great-grandfathers wouldn't know us. First line: Women blessed with shapely feet.

What tranquil joy his friendly presence gives!

Printed in brown on heavy tan paper; colored illustration of yellow frame house pasted on broadside above text. Title from first line of two-line excerpt from At the Saturday Club by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Type-signed at end of couplet: Holmes.

What Tot said

What Tot said

Brown University

By J. McNair Wright. At head of title cut of boys sledding. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 114. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What the Peep o'day alarm clock did!

1 broadsheet. Printed within ruled borders. At end of text: Ansonia Clock Company, sole manufacturers New York, U.S.A., Peep O' Day carriage ..

What Rosa saw and did

What Rosa saw and did

Brown University

By Mrs. J. M'Nair Wright. At head of title cut of girl and old man. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 87. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What next?

What next?

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Contains advertising.

What Mrs. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox says of the boys

Broadsheet printed in black and brown on heavy paper, a salesman's card. On verso text superimposed on illustration in brown of laundry equipment. Poem in recto in five six-line stanzas. On verso: N.R. Streeter & Co., manufacturers of Streeter's laundry hardware, "Sensible" novelties and ready selling specialties, Groton and Rochester, N.Y. Presented by [blank] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What mist; another 4th day of you lie?

Border of type ornaments at left and at left side of top. At bottom left illustration of calendar for July 1976 with the "4" outlined. Poem in four four-line stanzas.