The week before Christmas
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
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:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
The weed of the field
Brown University
The weed of the field
Brown University
The wee, white lambs of the fold
Brown University
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. At end of poem: California day, Feb. 20, 1915. Poem within ornamental border. Originally published in 1912 under title: The wedding of the rose and the lotus : a poem written on the near-completion of the Panama Canal. First lines: Flags of the Pacific and the Atlantic meet.
The wedding of the monkey and the coon
Brown University
The wedding of the monkey and the coon
Brown University
The wedding of the monkey and the coon
Brown University
The wedding of the Chinee and the coon
Brown University
words by Billy Johnson; music by Bob Cole (arr. by Theo. F. Morse) For voice and piano Caption title Advertisements for "Keep your eye on your friend Mister Johnson" and other songs: p. [2 and 6] Cover illustration: cartoon drawing of Afro-American man and Chinese woman getting married
The wedding in the cooky jar and the horse with the gingham tail
Brown University
The wedding in the cooky jar and the horse with the gingham tail
Brown University
The wedding dress
Brown University
The Webster Whigs, tho' fond of show
Brown University
Poetry. Within ornamental border. Title from first line. At head of text illustration of uniformed monkey (representing Winfield Scott) with caption "Old Fuss and Feathers"
The Webster Whigs, tho' fond of show
Brown University
Poetry. Within ornamental border. Title from first line. At head of text illustration of uniformed monkey (representing Winfield Scott) with caption "Old Fuss and Feathers"
The Webster Whigs, tho' fond of show
Brown University
Poetry. Within ornamental border. Title from first line. At head of text illustration of uniformed monkey (representing Winfield Scott) with caption "Old Fuss and Feathers"
The weaver
Brown University
Title within two lines of type ornaments. Printed on light blue paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The weaver
Brown University
Title within two lines of type ornaments. Printed on light blue paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The weather's either most too mild
Brown University
Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. At right of text reproduction of photograph of Riley; at left of text a flower. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of poem: James Whitcomb Riley. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
The weary travellers
Brown University
Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. Hymn in nine four-line stanzas. Publication date suggested from appearance of item. Not in Evans, Bristol or Wegelin. First line: Come all ye weary travellers now let us join and sing.
The way we'll catch the Kaiser
Brown University
The way to heaven
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line within double-line border. Poem in thirteen six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The way called straight
Brown University
At end of text: E.S.C.
The way called straight
Brown University
At end of text: E.S.C.
Tune: Mary's Dream. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: O. Drake. Describes murder of Matthews by Coolidge which occurred in September 1847.
Tune: Mary's Dream. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: O. Drake. Describes murder of Matthews by Coolidge which occurred in September 1847.
The watermill
Brown University
Within ornamental border. At head of text: As recited by Mr. Oliver W. Wren. At end of text: With compliments of ..
The watermill
Brown University
Within ornamental border. At head of text: As recited by Mr. Oliver W. Wren. At end of text: With compliments of ..
The Watermill
Brown University
The watered lilies
Brown University
Broadsheet. At head of text: 2 Cor. iv. 7. Poem in twelve four-line stanzas. At end of text on verso below rule: J.E. Jewett, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The Waterbury maids
Brown University
Imitation of song from The Mikado praising Waterbury watches. Imitation of song from The Mikado praising Waterbury watches. Advertising card printed in brown on light blue ground on card stock. At head of title colored illustration of three girls in Japanese costume. Poem in two 12-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of first performance of The Mikado in 1885.