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

Welcome home 1-5-7

Welcome home 1-5-7

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Within ornamental border. At head of text: By Colorado's soldier poet "Smiling Jim."

Welcome home

Welcome home

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lyric by Bud Green ; music by Ed. G. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers being welcomed home / Barbelle.

Welcome home

Welcome home

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words and music by Daisy M. Erd. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Daisy M. Erd; cover design / ES Fisher.

Welcome heroes

Welcome heroes

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Celebrates United States navy's round-the-world cruise. Celebrates United States navy's round-the-world cruise. by Marlen E. Pew. Printed in blue on heavy paper in postcard format; title at upper right. At upper left and below title colored illustration of white battleship. Poem in three numbered five-line stanzas.

Welcome and farewell to Kossuth

Page [4] blank. Cover title within border of type ornaments; double-line borders on pages [2] and [3] At end of poem: Alfred Bate Richards. November 12th, 1851. Colophon on page [3]: Petter, Duff, and Co. Crane Court, Fleet Street.

Welcome and farewell to Kossuth

Page [4] blank. Cover title within border of type ornaments; double-line borders on pages [2] and [3] At end of poem: Alfred Bate Richards. November 12th, 1851. Colophon on page [3]: Petter, Duff, and Co. Crane Court, Fleet Street.

Welcome

Welcome

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Printed on colored paper with ornamental border.

Weeping Mary

Weeping Mary

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Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wednesday

Wednesday

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Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman scrubbing floor; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.

Wedlock is a ticklish thing: and, Love and sausages

Poetry within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Caricature of white man and black woman captioned "What she proposes, be it good or bad,--He still opposes, till he drives her mad" centered in title. In lower margin below border: Sold wholesale and retail by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2 Mercantile Wharf, and head of city wharf, North side; the firm's location from 1837 to 1841. This edition not in Ford or Checklist of Amer. Imprints.

Wedding hymn

Wedding hymn

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Headband of type ornaments. At head of text; Compiled and composed by Sylv[a]nus Shepherd. First line: When Adam was created, he dwelt in Eden's shade.

Weary waiting

Weary waiting

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Pages [2,4] blank. At beginning of text reply to "Summer longings."

Wealth

Wealth

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by Marie McMahan. Poetry. French fold; printed on double page; pages [1-2,4] blank. Printed in red and black on tan paper with deckled edges; rubricated initial block. Imprint information from dealer, Barry Scott of Chicago. First line: Give me a cozy cottage.

Weal or woe

Weal or woe

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Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, on verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimoposed on colored lithograph of man kneeling before young woman. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso dialogue poem between "He" and "She" advertising Sollers shoes beginning: Sweet maiden of the sparkling eye. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We've got to have mondy: an old fact in a new comedy

"program week of August 30, 1926 ... the twenty-sixth Edwrd F. Albee Stock Company ... staged by Charles Schofield, scenes painted by Clarence Hanson, built by James G. Robertson" Walter Gilbert, Day Manson, A.S. Byron, Richard Abbott, Frank S. Peck, Charles Schofield, Baker Moore, Roy Wood, Mal Kelly, Gilda Leary, Lorraine Bernard, Flora Maude Gade, Mabel Woolsey

We're with you, boys, we're with you!

words by L.M. Townsend ; music by J.B. Walter. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Parts available: band, orchestra.

We're the sons of Uncle Sam

words by Hattie B. Fallas ; music by Dorothy Thompson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. Marine Corps troops landing.