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

If we could see beyond today

Norman J. Clayton. Poem on p. [2] of sheet: "My guide" Printed in purple. Page [1] of sheet illustrated with purple silhouettes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

If we could see beyond today

Norman J. Clayton. Poem on p. [2] of sheet: "My guide" Printed in purple. Page [1] of sheet illustrated with purple silhouettes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

If we could see beyond today

Norman J. Clayton. Poem on p. [2] of sheet: "My guide" Printed in purple. Page [1] of sheet illustrated with purple silhouettes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

If we could feel, another's woe

Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. Printed on yellow paper.

If we could all go out of flower

Printed in gold and colors on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial; text on verso in gold. At head of title illustration of sprays of flowers in triple gold frame. At end of text: Schakespeare. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

If thou art worn and hard beset

Poem advises sorrowful to "go to the woods and hills." Poem advises sorrowful to "go to the woods and hills." Postcard printed in purple within red border of type ornaments. At head of title reproduction of photograph of white birch trees captioned: Birches, near Portland, Me. Title from first line of six-line passage of poetry. Type-signed at end of poem: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

If this should be our last good bye

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alfred Solman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "When the parson hands the wedding band from me to Mandy Lee": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier bidding goodbye to his mother / Starmer.

If this should be our last good bye

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alfred Solman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "When the parson hands the wedding band from me to Mandy Lee": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier bidding goodbye to his mother / Starmer.

If this should be our last good bye

words by Bernie Grossman ; music by Alfred Solman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "When the parson hands the wedding band from me to Mandy Lee": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier bidding goodbye to his mother / Starmer.

If the winter days seem endless

Printed in gold and colors within green and gold ornamental border on heavy paper in postcard format; gilt edges. Illustration of lilies below text within border. Title from first line. Facsimile author autograph at end of poem: Mary C. Low. "Printed in Bavaria. No. 2527."--Verso. Suggested publication date from ms. date "Easter 1912" on Brown University copy.

If tears were pearls

If tears were pearls

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in green, on verso in black. At left of title illustration of woman crying into bucket. First line same as title. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; music by Albert Von Tilzer. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

If she means what I think she means: song

lyric and music by Arthur J. Jackson and Bud De Sylva. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Ziegfeld follies, 1918. Advertisement for "The bluebird", printed in blue ink: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; drawing of a girl in a dancing costume / Starmer.

If I'm not at the roll call: kiss Mother good-bye for me

by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a song book: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers in a trench / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I'm not at the roll call: kiss Mother good-bye for me

by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a song book: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers in a trench, printed in blue ink / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I'm not at the roll call: kiss Mother good-bye for me

by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a song book: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers in a trench, printed in blue ink / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

If I'm not at the roll call: kiss Mother good-bye for me

by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a song book: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers in a trench, printed in blue ink / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.