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.
Poetry. Pages [2,4] blank. Printed on cream paper. On page [1] drawing of King in red and black signed Wm. Saltzman. Title from first line. At end of poem: Ancient plain song. Imprint information from dealer, J. H. Woolmer, Revere, Pa.
lyric by Raymond B. Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The overseas revue (Tout suite Elizabet), a war-time version of the post-war revue, Toot sweet, starring Elizabeth Brice. Advertisement for other songs from the revue: p. [6 Cover illustration: drawing of actress in costume / F.E. Muire.
lyric by Bud De Sylva and Gus Kahn ; music by Albert Gumble. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Commander William Buel Franklin, U.S.N.R.F. Advertisement for "You don't know" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Del. Chain, Sidney Phillips, Commander William Buel Franklin; drawing of battleships / Starmer.
lyric by Bud De Sylva and Gus Kahn ; music by Albert Gumble. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Commander William Buel Franklin, U.S.N.R.F. Advertisement for "You don't know" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Del. Chain, Sidney Phillips, Commander William Buel Franklin; drawing of battleships / Starmer.
lyric by Bud De Sylva and Gus Kahn ; music by Albert Gumble. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Commander William Buel Franklin, U.S.N.R.F. Advertisement for "You don't know" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Del. Chain, Sidney Phillips, Commander William Buel Franklin; drawing of battleships / Starmer.
lyric by Bud De Sylva and Gus Kahn ; music by Albert Gumble. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Commander William Buel Franklin, U.S.N.R.F. Advertisement for "You don't know" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of Del. Chain, Sidney Phillips, Commander William Buel Franklin; drawing of battleships / Starmer.
lyric by Lew Porter & Alex Sullivan ; music by Max Friedman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Memory-land" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: servicemen reading newspaper / Natwick.
arr. by Thomas Benners ; words and music by Frankie Williams. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4 Cover illustration: photograph of woman / Moody, N.Y.
Printed in blue and black. Flyer from press advertising Corrosive Sublimate by G. Sorrentino with text of: Well she walked out of my life. Her young breasts. [First line]
by Jack Frost. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers leaving farm, printed in red and blue ink.
Charles Philbrick. Broadsheet. Poem on recto; second section (or another untitled poem) on verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
Charles Philbrick. Broadsheet. Poem on recto; second section (or another untitled poem) on verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
By E.W. Locke, army poet and balladist. To be sung to the tune: When Johnny comes marching home. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of title caricature of Andrew Jackson reading newspaper headlined: 10,000 Union Major. Text of song in nine eight-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because of discussion of elections during Johnson's presidency and his "trip out West" that occurred in 1866.
Printed in six columns. Contains text of eight songs and poems, beginning with Get off the track. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
words and music by Edward Laska. For voice and piano. "A song expression of Provost Marshal General E.H. Crowder's famous 'Work or Fight' order...the song that predicted this order at the time of President Wilson's declaration of war"--Cover. Caption title. War slogans: p. 2-[4] Advertisement for "Smiles": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of war activities / Starmer.
lyric by J.E. Dempsey & Tom Kennedy ; music by Joe Burke & Sam Downing. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogan: p. [4] Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier looking over the countryside.