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

I wouldn't throw the khaki down, would you?

lyric by Frank A. Picard ; music by John B. Archer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by the character Beatrice in the musical "Say the word" Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 7-8] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam pulling back an over-eager soldier / H.P. Thomas.

I would

I would

Brown University

Greetings for the New Year from Merritt A. Farren.

I wonder who's knitting for me

words by Raymond Leveen ; music by Jesse Winne. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of soldier with image of women knitting / Starmer.

I wonder what he's doing to-night

words by Joe Goodwin ; music by James F. Hanley. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: soldier in camp envisaging his mother / Barbelle.

I wonder if she waits in Dixie Land

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in brown and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of black man looking out of barred prison cell. 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.

I wish he would decide, Mamma

Poetry. Within decorative border with Afro-American costumed man at left serenading Afro-American woman in balcony at right, with two black Cupids at top center; lettered D in Wolf. First line same as title. Song in three thirteen-line stanzas. Label within lower border at center: H. De Marsan. Dealer in songs, toy books, &c. No. 38 Chatham St. N.Y.

I will. The Chicago spirit song

Printed on colored paper. At head of text: Dedicated to the pageant of progress, Wm. Hale Tompson - its originator, and every true Chicagoan.

I went to your church last Sunday

Printed in blue on heavy light blue paper within double-line border. Vignette of church in upper right corner of border. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: By Fairy Elizabeth Sykes. A Poetry Hall of Fame selection. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

I was surprised to find myself out here and acting like a crow

Broadside printed in red and black laid into lettered illustrated wrapper. Geometric illustration on cover. Cover title. "From Songs for the Society of Mystic Animals. Total translation from the Seneca Indian by Richard Johnny John & Jerome Rothenberg. This typographical version by Ian Tyson...."

I was surprised to find myself out here and acting like a crow

Broadside printed in red and black laid into lettered illustrated wrapper. Geometric illustration on cover. Cover title. "From Songs for the Society of Mystic Animals. Total translation from the Seneca Indian by Richard Johnny John & Jerome Rothenberg. This typographical version by Ian Tyson...."

I was surprised to find myself out here and acting like a crow

Broadside printed in red and black laid into lettered illustrated wrapper. Geometric illustration on cover. Cover title. "From Songs for the Society of Mystic Animals. Total translation from the Seneca Indian by Richard Johnny John & Jerome Rothenberg. This typographical version by Ian Tyson...."

I was down the field finding foxgloves

Title from first line. Poetry printed in two columns of differing width; each poem type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on white paper. In lower part of first column: Free poems among friends. "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.