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.

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Items in this collection

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We want Willkie

We want Willkie

Brown University

Processed copy. At head of text: Words and music by Helen Church and Martha Baird Allen.

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

Brown University

words and music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photograph of Gitz Rice; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Advertisement for a song book: p. [6]

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

Brown University

words and music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photograph of Gitz Rice; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Advertisement for a song book: p. [6]

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

We stopped them at the Marne: (it's to ???? with Germany)

Brown University

words and music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photograph of Gitz Rice; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Advertisement for a song book: p. [6]

We stand for peace while others war

We stand for peace while others war

Brown University

words & music [by] W.R. Williams. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "President Wilson's appeal to Americans"--p. [2] Cover illustration: photograph of Woodrow Wilson; border design / Starmer.

We sit down

We sit down

Brown University

Printed in blue and black on heavy ivory paper with deckled lower edge; row of type ornaments in blue at left of text. Title from first line. Poem in three three-line stanzas and one two-line stanza. Typesigned at end of poem: Michael Hannon. Place of publication and publisher suggested because Twrch Trwyth could be pronounced Turk Truth and other items by Hannon were published by Turkey Press, which was in Cranston, R.I. in 1974-1976 and later in Isla Vista. Range of publication dates suggested from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

We sing of a man--beat him if you can

We sing of a man--beat him if you can

Brown University

Title from first line of first poem. At head: No. 1. Air: --"In the Morning by the Bright Light." Text of 4 numbered campaign songs for James Gillespie Blaine printed in two columns.

We sat by the river, you and I

We sat by the river, you and I

Brown University

First line same as title. Text of song in six four-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Attributed to Caroline Norton; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We ought to be thankful for that:: a comic song

We ought to be thankful for that:: a comic song

Brown University

by Sam Lucas For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB) Cover title Advertisement for other songs: p. [2] Cover illustration: drawing of hand holding playing cards with figures, including one with Afro-American preacher

We never speak as we pass by

We never speak as we pass by

Brown University

Within double-line border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: We never speak as we pass by. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Ascribed to F. Egerton; entered under title rather than author.

We never did that before: comic song

We never did that before: comic song

Brown University

words and music by Edward Laska. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers and sailors / Starmer.

We meet to-night in gladness

We meet to-night in gladness

Brown University

Title from first line. Text of song in five four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates from home and lifetime of S.W. McDaniel, mentioned as subject of song by ms. note on Brown University copy.