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.
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Items in this collection

You'll find Old Dixieland in France: (on voit tout Dixieland en France)

For voice and piano. Caption title. "Introduced by Bert Williams in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic"--Cover. Advertisement for three songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of the Eiffel tower and Afro-Americans in cotton field, printed in blue and black ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

You'll find Old Dixieland in France: (on voit tout Dixieland en France)

For voice and piano. Caption title. "Introduced by Bert Williams in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic"--Cover. Advertisement for three songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of the Eiffel tower and Afro-Americans in cotton field, printed in blue and black ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

You'll find Old Dixieland in France: (on voit tout Dixieland en France)

For voice and piano. Caption title. "Introduced by Bert Williams in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic"--Cover. Advertisement for three songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of the Eiffel tower and Afro-Americans in cotton field, printed in blue and black ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

You'll find Old Dixieland in France: (on voit tout Dixieland en France)

For voice and piano. Caption title. "Introduced by Bert Williams in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic"--Cover. Advertisement for three songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: photographs of the Eiffel tower and Afro-Americans in cotton field, printed in blue and black ink. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

You'll be there

You'll be there

Brown University

lyric by J. Keirn Brennan ; music by Ernest R. Ball. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedication: to the Boy Scouts of America. Advertisement for "For Dixie and Uncle Sam": p. 2. Cover illustration: drawing of Uncle Sam / Dunk. N.Y. Advertisement for other songs: p. 3-[4]

You need'nt make dem goo-goo eyes

words and music by Thos D. Buick For voice and piano Caption title Advertisement for other music: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American woman with umbrella and Afro-American man; photograph of unidentified woman

You may wear poor shoes, you may wear poor clothes

Poems advertise Fritz's drugstore and soda fountain. Poems advertise Fritz's drugstore and soda fountain. Printed in blue and green on card stock, pages [1] and [4] bluish gray, pages [2]-[3] tan, within ornamental green border. Title from first line. At head of title illustration of couple and child entering pharmacy; on page [4] illustration of man. Needle book containing 17 needles and 8 larger needles inserted in piece of blue cloth pasted onto page [2] Publication date from calendar for 1908 on page [2] At end of text on page [1]: Presented by J.A. Fritz, M.D. Vista Grande, California.

You may not expect from me

Printed on heavy rust-colored paper in postcard format. At top, bottom and between stanzas vignettes of pine twigs and cones and horseshoe. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name, imprint and publication date from dealer.

You may never wear the khaki

Title from first line. At end of text: W.E.K. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table. Poem urges saving food for soldiers by eating less meat.

You may never wear the khaki

Title from first line. At end of text: W.E.K. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table. Poem urges saving food for soldiers by eating less meat.

You first, Sir

You first, Sir

Brown University

Poem gives religious aspect to Craven's heroism in letting pilot precede him on the escape-ladder. Poem gives religious aspect to Craven's heroism in letting pilot precede him on the escape-ladder. By Rev. G.F. Worthington, A.M., Baltimore, Md. Page [4] blank. At head of text: It is stated that when the Monitor Tecumseh was about to be blown up by a torpedo in Mobile Bay .. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Craven's death in 1864.

You evoke in a flash

You evoke in a flash

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on wheat-colored paper in facsimile of author's handwriting in shape of cross. Title from first line. On verso: Love and peace. Authorship and imprint date from Lepper, p. 247.

You can't stop the Yanks: (till they go right thru)

by Jack Caddigan and Chick Story. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 unnumbered. "Dedicated to the American Army & Navy"--Cover. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers surrounding Germany.

You can tell that he's an American

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Percy Wenrich. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Successfully featured in Ziegfeld's 'Follies' by Frank Carter"--Cover. Advertisement for 3 songbooks: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; border design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by a rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

You can tell by his smile or his frown

lyric by Wm. H. Pease ; music by Walter J. Pond. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: U.S. soldiers reading mail / Fred.

You can search me

You can search me

Brown University

words & music by Elliott & Gorton For voice and piano Cover title Composer's name appears as Elliot in caption Sung by: Jake Welby of Gorton's Minstrels Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American man, chicken, and silver dollar / K. Rising; photograph of Jake Welby