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

We meet to-night in gladness

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.

We may build more splendid habitations

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of house captioned: Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, Me. Title from first line of four-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We live and never die

We live and never die

Brown University

Tune: Annie Laurie. Within ornamental border. At head of title: Song. At head of text: A message from the fallen heroes of democracy to their comrades.

We leave our running water

Title from first line. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We know if we could live in peace

Title from first lines of first poem. Mimeographed typescript on yellow paper; each poem type-signed at end. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free Poems among Friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

We have once again

We have once again

Brown University

Title from first line. Air: Tramp, tramp, tramp. At head of text: Second Massachusetts Infantry Association. Reunion of September 17, 1900 (Antietam Day)

We have once again

We have once again

Brown University

Title from first line. Air: Tramp, tramp, tramp. At head of text: Second Massachusetts Infantry Association. Reunion of September 17, 1900 (Antietam Day)

We greet thee, Alma Mater

To be sung to the tune: Maryland, my Maryland. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We don't want the bacon: (what we want is a piece of the Rhine)

by "Kid" Howard Carr, Harry Russell and Jimmie Havens. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Lieut. Joseph Foley, U.S.A." Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for "Gem dance folio for 1919": p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm. Also publishd for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

We don't want the bacon: (what we want is a piece of the Rhine)

by "Kid" Howard Carr, Harry Russell and Jimmie Havens. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Lieut. Joseph Foley, U.S.A." Advertisement for other music: p. 3-[4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm.

We carry our crises within our heads

Poem in white superimposed on photograph of author; post card format. On verso: The Croupier Press Poetry Card Series #6. First line same as title.

We are Uncle Sammie's little nephews

lyrics by Bernard Satz ; music by W.E. Sheaffer. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Featured by the two trench fiddlers Sgts. Satz and Dufault" Cover illustration: photograph of 151st Depot Brigade Band, Fife and Drum Corps, Camp Devens, Mass.

We are marching on to victory

At head of title cut of high silk hat. To be sung to the tune: John Brown. Text of song in three four-line stanzas with chorus beginning: Glory, glory, hallelujah. No candidate is named, but mention of the "grand old party" and "sound money" points to the presidential election of 1896; 1892 and other dates are possible.