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

Let's all be Americans now

by Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & Geo. W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Joan of Arc they are calling you": p. [4] "For sale by all dealers; send for our catalogue": p. [4] Cover illustration: a soldier with rifle, silhouette of soldiers marching / Barbelle.

Let's all be Americans now

by Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & Geo. W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Joan of Arc they are calling you": p. [4] "For sale by all dealers; send for our catalogue": p. [4] Cover illustration: a soldier with rifle, silhouette of soldiers marching / Barbelle.

Let's all be Americans now

by Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & Geo. W. Meyer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Joan of Arc they are calling you": p. [4] "For sale by all dealers; send for our catalogue": p. [4] Cover illustration: a soldier with rifle, silhouette of soldiers marching / Barbelle.

Let us sing 'ere we part

Poem in five five-line stanzas. Last line of each stanza: In the sweet by and by. At end of poem: F. B. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

Let us say a prayer for daddy

words & music by Lew Schaeffer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of mother and child seated.

Let us fight for our liberty: and the flag that we all love

words and music by Charles Foehr. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for two other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Charles Foehr; drawing of allegorical figure of liberty with U.S. flag / E.S. Fisher.

Let us be done with the ordered phrase

Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At head of title reproduction of photograph of house with garden. At end of text: Eugene and Willie Murphey. Another Christmas card in the Brown University Hay Broadsides Coll. sent by the Murpheys bears the address "Augusta, Georgia." Suggested date from mention of war with "Nippon."

Let there be light

Let there be light

Brown University

Title from first line. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Let there be light

Let there be light

Brown University

Title from first line. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Let there be light

Let there be light

Brown University

Title from first line. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Let the President sleep

Let the President sleep

Brown University

Cover illustration is shrouded statue with base inscribed "Im memory of Abraham Lincoln" Written by James M. Stewart; music by Geo. A. Brown For voice and piano

Let the flag fly!

Let the flag fly!

Brown University

words and music by L. Wolfe Gilbert. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Suggested by the slogan of the New York world 'Let the flag fly'." Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-[4] Cover illustration: photograph of marching soldiers / U & U; photograph of L. Wolfe Gilbert.

Let the chimes of Normandy be our wedding bells

lyric by Paul B. Armstrong ; music by F. Henri Klickmann. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier and his bride leaving church.

Let me sing to you

Let me sing to you

Brown University

Poetry. First line same as title. At end of text: A.M. Watson, April 1950.

Let me kiss the flag before I die

words by Arthur J. Lamb ; music by Frederick V. Bowers. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Sung with great success by: the composer, Frederick V. Bowers. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-[4] Cover illustration: drawing of a dying soldier tended by a nurse / Starmer; photograph of Frederick V. Bowers.

Let me bring my clothes back home

words and music by Irving Jones For voice and piano Caption title "As sung by Jones, Grant & Jones"--Cover Advertisements for other music: p. 2-[6] Cover illustration: photograph of unidentified Afro-American man pleading with Afro-American woman