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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

Holding hands and "You don't say nothing at all."

Holding hands and "You don't say nothing at all."

Brown University

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 couple holding hands. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; Albert Von Tilzer author of music. "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.

Hold the fort for Hayes and Wheeler

Hold the fort for Hayes and Wheeler

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Hold the fort. Text of song in three four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Hold the fort for Hayes and Wheeler. In lower margin below double rule: Burrows & Blinn, Printers. Publication date from reference to the presidential campaign of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876.