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 was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 3d, 1850

Autobiographical sketch, also published under title: An auto-analysis. Title from first line. "Reissued, 1896, with an introductory note by Francis Wilson under the title 'Eugene Field an auto-analysis'"--BAL.

I was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 3d, 1850

Autobiographical sketch, also published under title: An auto-analysis. Title from first line. "Reissued, 1896, with an introductory note by Francis Wilson under the title 'Eugene Field an auto-analysis'"--BAL.

I was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 3d, 1850

Autobiographical sketch, also published under title: An auto-analysis. Title from first line. "Reissued, 1896, with an introductory note by Francis Wilson under the title 'Eugene Field an auto-analysis'"--BAL.

I was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 3d, 1850

Autobiographical sketch, also published under title: An auto-analysis. Title from first line. "Reissued, 1896, with an introductory note by Francis Wilson under the title 'Eugene Field an auto-analysis'"--BAL.

I was a soldier: comic song

lyric and music by Johnny Burke. March for voice and piano. Caption title. As sung by Johnny Burke in the Shubert production "The Passing show." Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Johnny Burke / National N.Y.

I was a number for the I.B.M

Broadsheet. At head of title: Penny poems, with vignette of man beating drum. At head of text, in parentheses: "I hate old poetmen"--Gregory Corso. Type-signed at end of poem: Natalie Barker, Yale. Colophon at end: No. 21 ... Send manuscripts to Penny Poems, 2826 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut.

I was a K.K.K.

I was a K.K.K.

Brown University

At head of text: 1 John 4-20 - If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother ..

I want to go home

I want to go home

Brown University

words and music by Gitz Rice. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for a song book: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Gitz Rice; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover.

I want to go back to "Blighty"

words by Lee M. Walker ; music by Wm. B. Davidson. For voice and piano. Cover title. Sung by: Reinald Werrenrath. Advertisements for other "Blighty" songs: p. [2, 8]

I want to be loved by a soldier

words by Henry Fink ; music by Abner Silver. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Mollie King. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Mollie King; cover design / E.H. Pfeiffer.

I thought I'd write a letter

Poetry. Printed in green and red on heavy cream paper in postcard format within ornamental border. Rubricated initial. At head of title pasted-on photograph of house captioned: The old Barker place, Pembroke, Mass. Title from first line. At end of text: Copyrighted 1912 by F.A. Hubald.

I think the greatest

I think the greatest

Brown University

Title from first line. Printed in green on blue paper. Within ornamental border. At end of text: An enamelprint by the Mercantile Press ..

I think I'll wait until they all come home

words by Marcus C. Connelly ; music by Gitz Rice. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Copyright, MCMXVIV [i.e. 1919]"--P. 2. Advertisement for another song: p. [7] Cover illustration: drawing of ship with soldiers leaving / L.A. Brunner.

I think I hear camels coming

John Sinclair. Title from first line. Printed in brown on lime paper. At end of text: Camels Coming Press/P.O. Box 703/San Francisco... Caption title. Poem.

I thank you for the razor blades

Poem in three four-line stanzas. At head of title: The following "jingle" was received from one of our stockholders. Title from first line. Below single line, above poem: Frank N. Phillips ... April 27, 1946 Dear Mr. Phillips.

I thank Thee for the bull, O God

Title from first line. Pages [1-4] blank. At end of text: "I wrote this little poem for the instruction of children ... (Extract from Mark Twain letter to the Mammoth Cod Club)

I tell thee that the "pansy freaked with jet"

Printed in colors on cream-colored silk; text in tan. At head of title large colored illustration of pansies. Title from first line of four-line poem. Type-signed at end: Sarah Dowdney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

I tell thee that the "pansy freaked with jet"

Printed in colors on cream-colored silk; text in tan. At head of title large colored illustration of pansies. Title from first line of four-line poem. Type-signed at end: Sarah Dowdney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.