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

Coming home

Coming home

Brown University

words and music by Caroline L. Sumner ; arr. by Geo. L. Cobb. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to General Pershing and the Victory Boys" Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: border design with U.S. shields. Also published as: male quartet, orchestra, march one step.

Come, listen to a story

Come, listen to a story

Brown University

Title from first line. At end of text: Metropolitan Job Print, 28 Ann Street, N.Y. Poem in four stanzas advertises lunchroom at 12 Ann Street. Date from internal evidence. Lunchroom not named in item but is named in another broadside (cf. Brown University copy, HB7177/NY)

Come on. Buy war saving stamp

French fold; printed on double leavess. Text on page [1] within single line border. Written by Dr. Smiles. Contains advertising. Contains poetry.

Come on, America!

Come on, America!

Brown University

words by Edmund Vance Cooke ; music by Kenneth M. Murchison. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs in the series: p. [6] Parts available: band, orchestra.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Cover title. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Advertisement for "The music of wedding chimes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Cover title. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Advertisement for "The music of wedding chimes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Cover title. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Advertisement for "The music of wedding chimes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Cover title. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Advertisement for "The music of wedding chimes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie & Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Cover title. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Advertisement for "The music of wedding chimes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on papa

Come on papa

Brown University

words and music by Edgar Leslie and Harry Ruby. For voice and piano. Introduced by: Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld Follies. Cover title. Advertisement for "Waltzing the scales": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a man and woman driving / Barbelle; photograph of Eddie Cantor.

Come on Ike and blow your horn

Printed in black on heavy mustard-colored paper. At left of text cut of golfer; at right of text cuts of fisherman and sunbather. Includes three four-line poems. Printed vertically in right margin: 20 cards sent prepaid for $1 bill ... Addres [sic] Cowboy, Box 157, Caddo, Okla. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Come in, Ephraim

Come in, Ephraim

Brown University

Broadsheet. Printed in brown. On verso poem entitled An acrostic; the first letters of each line spell out Rising Sun Stove Polish. On recto colored illustration of black couple with stove; caption begins: Come in, Ephraim. Date from internal evidence.

Come in, Ephraim

Come in, Ephraim

Brown University

Broadsheet. Printed in brown. On verso poem entitled An acrostic; the first letters of each line spell out Rising Sun Stove Polish. On recto colored illustration of black couple with stove; caption begins: Come in, Ephraim. Date from internal evidence.

Come home, father

Come home, father

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At head of text: We have listened to many eloquent and touching temperance appeals ..

Come home, father

Come home, father

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Includes text of two temperance songs and two children's hymns in upper part. Lower part, headed: Pianos, organ, melodeons! contains advertising for sale and rental of musical instruments from L.L. Harmon, Portsmouth, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.