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 kind of an American are you?

words by Lew Brown and Chas. McCarron ; music by Albert Von Tilzer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam and map of U.S.

What is Canada's flag?

What is Canada's flag?

Brown University

At head of title and at left illustration of flag with Union jack in upper left corner and maple leaf at right; flagstaff at left of text. Poem in 28 lines. Type-signed at end: Amy Redpath Roddick. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

What is a glass of beer?

At head of title cut of hand pouring beer from tankard into glass. Caption title In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 121. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence

What I saw and what I heard

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: Manufactured only by C.P. Whitten, 35 East Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. .. Poem in 16 eight-line stanzas praising Whitten's Golden Salve. Date from internal evidence.

What does Christmas mean to me?

Pages [2-4] blank. Within colored ornamental border. Title and first line the same. In lower margin: Poem by - Florence Emmerette Peck. Decoration by - Ina L. Swift.

What do you think endures?

Folded broadsheet printed in green and red on heavy cream paper; geometric ornamental design on cover. Title from first line. In right margin of text page: A Christmas Greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1969.

What do the angels say?

What do the angels say?

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in light and dark green on cream paper. Illustration of sprays of lily-of-the-valley at head of text. At end of text: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What cloud is that cloud

Bookmark printed on textured ivory paper. First line same as title. At end of text logotype of press with vignette of curbstone. "From Quechua people's poetry translated by Maria A. Proser and James Scully." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

What Christ said

What Christ said

Brown University

Printed in red typefaces on yellow colored paper Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What can I do?: Your mission

Within double line border. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text outside border: Young Men's Christian Association, of Worcester, 7 Mechanics Hall. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What became of New England?

by Robert Frost. Cover title. Page [4] blank. On cover: Commencement address, Oberlin College, June 8, 1937. Reprinted from The Oberlin Alumni Magazine for May, 1938. Cream paper printed in black.

What are you going to do when our boys come home?

words by Ivan Reid ; music by Peter De Rose. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers with a question mark / EE Walton.

What are you going to be?

At head of title cut of little boy sitting on rock at shore. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 100. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.