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

Way down there: a Dixie boy is missing : song

lyric by Stanley Murphy ; music by Harry Tierney. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Sweet little Buttercup" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of garden gate and battle scene; photograph of Belle Baker.

Way down souf among de brakes: song and chorus

Slave husband laments separation from his wife, sold by "ole Massa." Slave husband laments separation from his wife, sold by "ole Massa." Within double-line border. Text of dialect song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Dar we lib'd and lub'd each other. At end of text: Words and music at Kimball's Music Rooms, Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Way down in old Virginia

Song describes military home in Virginia for disabled Union veterans. Song describes military home in Virginia for disabled Union veterans. Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. At head of title within upper border cut of broken drum and sword. At end of text within lower border: Written by D.D. Gilson, late of Co. M. 1st Mass. H. A. Price five cents. Text of song in 16 five-line stanzas, with the fifth line usually: Way down in Old Virginia. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the reference to the home's inmates as elderly.

Wau-bun

Wau-bun

Brown University

Within double line border.

Wau-bun

Wau-bun

Brown University

Within double line border.

Wau-bun

Wau-bun

Brown University

Within double line border.

Water of life

Water of life

Brown University

Within ornamental border. Poem in ten five-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Published by G.V. Peterson. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Watchmen's address

Watchmen's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Wood-engraving of street scene with burning house and watchman at head of title; same illustration on The watchman's address to his protected friends, 1828 (Brown University HB18403) Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: January 1, 1829.

Watchmen's address

Watchmen's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Wood-engraving of street scene with burning house and watchman at head of title; same illustration on The watchman's address to his protected friends, 1828 (Brown University HB18403) Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: January 1, 1829.

Washington, the nation builder

At end of text: This poem was written at the request of the Bicentennial Commission for distribution during the nine months' celebration of George Washington's Anniversary in 1932.

Washington, the nation builder

At end of text: This poem was written at the request of the Bicentennial Commission for distribution during the nine months' celebration of George Washington's Anniversary in 1932.

Washington, '96

Washington, '96

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in sepia on heavy glossy white paper. On recto reproductions of photographs of The White House, Treasury, Capitol, Soldiers' Home,and Washington Monument with text of song at center. In upper left corner: Washington '96. Compliments of the District of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union. In upper right corner: Presented at the Boston Convention July, 1895. To be sung to the tune: Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Text of song in two four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: Washington in '96! Washington in '96! On verso, headed: A glance forward--Washington, '96, information about coming convention.