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 hear the song of the Easter skies!

Printed in gold and pale colors within ornamental border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial block; gilt edges. Illustration of forget-me-nots in inner border; inside outer upper border: The time of singing birds has come, the Easter of the year; inside outer lower border: And everywhere in wood and mead the flowers reappear. Title from first line. Facsimile author autograph at end of poem: Mary Cromwell Low. "No. 3628. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

I hear my country calling

words and music by George Boyden. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of a soldier and a woman / C. White.

I hear America calling

I hear America calling

Brown University

words by Isabel Friedlieb ; music by Harry I. Robinson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Respectfully Dedicated to the Soldiers and Sailors of the U.S.A." Cover illustration: drawing of figure of "Columbia" with trumpet and banner labelled "For democracy" and a soldier.

I haven't come to sing

I haven't come to sing

Brown University

León Felipe ; translated by Stephen Kessler. Gray paper printed in black and brick red in two columns. First line of translation: I haven't come to sing, you can take the guitar away. Spanish poem on left and English translation on right.

I have set before you life and death: therefore choose life

Broadsheet printed in gold and colors on heavy paper; text on verso in blue within ornamental border. Text on recto superimposed on colored illustration of oriental city gate. On verso four poems beginning with Love and light (First line: 'Tis better to hope though the clouds hang low) Below lower border on verso: With good wishes from James Alex. Watson.

I hate tobacco

I hate tobacco

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in colors; text in blue. Text at upper right; at left and below colored lighograph of little dog and white bird with basket and flowers. Poem in four lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

I had a little husband

I had a little husband

Brown University

Broadsheet; advertising card printed on heavy card stock. On recto text superimposed on upper and lower parts of colored illustration of baby standing in can of Nestlé's Milk Food. On verso prose information about product headed: What is Nestlé's Milk Food? Poem on recto is adaptation of nursery rhyme in two stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

I had a dream the other night

Kirstine Davis. Printed in blue on heavy white paper; red band at right edge of page [1] and blue band on page [3] Drawings of girls on pages [1]-[3] Title from first line. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. On page [4] prose appeal for contributions to summer camp for underprivileged girls. Suggested range of publication dates because of mention of war.

I had $15 in my inside pocket

Singer explains to judge how his friends led him to spend his money drinking with them. Singer explains to judge how his friends led him to spend his money drinking with them. Cover title. Title on page [1] within single-line border superimposed on illustration of dishevelled man standing before magistrate; signed Spedon[?] In upper right corner of page [1] within border: P. Lorillard & Co's song album. On pages [2]-[3] printed vertically to be read unfolded words of song in two 8-line stanzas with 4-line chorus beginning: I had fifteen dollars in my inside pocket. Advertisement for "Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco" on page [4] within double-line border; it begins: Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco is the best chew and smoke. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

I felt that this ear of the soul opened

Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. At end of poem: Jules Supervielle. Translation: Chas. Guenther. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

I dreamt that the whole world was free

[words and music] by Joe. Cronson. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: allegorical figure of liberty holding torch and laurel wreath.

I dreamt my daddy came home

words by Joe Darcey ; music by Lew Porter. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. 3. Advertisement for songs from "Atta boy": p. [4] Cover illustration: girl dreaming of father's homecoming / Barbelle.

I don't want to go to war: song

lyric by Edward Madden ; musci by Henry I. Marshall. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover design by John Frew.

I don't want to get well

words by Howard Johnson & Harry Pease ; music by Harry Jentes. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement (A-72) for "Goodbye Broadway, hello France!" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a nurse taking care of a wounded soldier / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

I don't want no yellow coon

words & music by H.V. Monroe For voice and piano Caption title Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: dark-skinned Afro-American couple walking past light-skinned Afro-American man

I don't want no Jonah hangin' round:: coon song

words & music by Hughie Cannon For voice and piano. Cover title Advertisements for other songs: p. [2 and 6] Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American man sitting on beach looking at a whale

I don't know where I'm going: but I'm on my way

words and music by George Fairman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier with rifle / EH Pfeiffer; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer. Photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: p. [4]