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

In Flanders' fields: song

words [by] John McCrae ; music [by] Emerson L. Stone. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4]

In Flanders' fields: op. 277

poem by John McCrae ; music by Homer N. Bartlett. For medium voice and piano in D major. Cover title. "To the memory of the heroes who lie in Flanders fields"--Caption. Advertisement for song books: p. [8] Also published for: high voice and piano in F major (original key)

In Flanders' fields

In Flanders' fields

Brown University

by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Printed on heavy paper. At end of text: Copyright November, 1918.

In Flanders fields: song

words by John McCrae ; music by J. Deane Wells. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Composer's autograph printed on cover.

In Flanders fields: soldiers memorial song

original poem by John D. McCrae : revised words and song by Herbert Miles and Majorie Trotter. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6]

In Flanders fields: an answer

Poem answers call of Allied dead in John McCrae's poem In Flanders fields with promise to keep faith and fight for freedom. Poem answers call of Allied dead in John McCrae's poem In Flanders fields with promise to keep faith and fight for freedom. by R.W. Lillard. Postcard printed in black on white within border of type ornaments. Initial block. Poem in two stanzas. At end of text within lower border: Courtesy of The New York Evening Post. Poem also published under title: America's answer. Publication date suggested because of references in poem to U.S. entrance into World War I.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

words by John McRae ; music by Mark Andrews. For high voice and piano. Cover title. "To my friend Mary Jordan"--P. 3. Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Also published for: low voice and piano.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

on words by John McCrae ; music by W.H. Leib. For high voice and piano. Caption title. "First sung in public July 16, 1918, by the author's pupil, Frances Geddes-Bendelari, to whom it is gratefully inscribed" From poem: In Flanders fields / John McCrae. Also published for low voice. Cover illustration: drawing of cemetery. Lyricist's name appears as John McCrea on cover.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

poem by John McCrae ; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. For low voice and piano in A major. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [8] Cover illustration: drawing of cemetery scene with poppies and soldiers / Philip Lyford. Also published for high voice and piano in D♭ major.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

poem by John McCrae ; music by Charles Gilbert Spross. For high voice and piano in D♭ major. Cover title. Cover illustration: drawing of cemetery scene with poppies and soldiers / Philip Lyford. Also published for low voice and piano in A major.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

words by John McCrae ; music by Mary Wyman Williams. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [1] and [6

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

Title from first line. Poetry, within ornamental border, superimposed on colored reproduction of landscape painting with grave markers and poppies, initialed H.Z.T.[?] with notation "Words by Lieut. Coln. McCrae" Matted broadside with brief history of poem and author pasted onto verso "Proceeds from the sale of these pictures donated to War Relief. - Mrs. John C. Tappin, 66 Broadway."

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

By Lieut. Col. John McCrae, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Within border of type ornaments. At end of second poem information about McCrae and Lowenstein. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

In exile

In exile

Brown University

Page [2] blank. Within single line border. Page [4]: Written for private circulation only, and read at Tabor's Farm reunion dinner, ... One hundred copies have been printed ..

In due season we shall reap

Printed in red and black on heavy white paper in postcard format; rubricated initial block. Poem. At end of text: Copyrighted 1907 Dr. Hillson.

In Cuzco

In Cuzco

Brown University

Poetry. Tan paper printed in red-brown and black. At end of poem: James Scully Peru X.73. "Limited edition of 250 copies." First line: Something they had to celebrate.

In Cuzco

In Cuzco

Brown University

Poetry. Tan paper printed in red-brown and black. At end of poem: James Scully Peru X.73. "Limited edition of 250 copies." First line: Something they had to celebrate.

In childhood days

In childhood days

Brown University

At end of text: Dedicated to Alice Gertrude Duggan of Connecticut, beloved of all, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts, U.S.A. December 1932 A.D. Poem in sixteen lines.