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.
Appeal to join the seceded states; Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland are mentioned as slow to decide. Appeal to join the seceded states; Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland are mentioned as slow to decide. Text of song in six four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Wait for the wagon. At end of text: Miss Annie M. Young, Alexandria, Virginia. According to Rudolph: Appeal to Southern states to join the Confederacy after Tennessee joined May 6, 1861 but before Arkansas seceded 12 days later. Source according to Ellinger, p. 161, the Raleigh Register; no author given. This edition not in Rudolph or Wolf.
Appeal to join seceded states; Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland are mentioned as slow to decide. Appeal to join seceded states; Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky and Maryland are mentioned as slow to decide. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in six six-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Wait for the wagon. According to Rudolph: Appeal to Southern states to join the Confederacy after Tennessee joined May 6, 1861 but before Arkansas seceded 12 days later. Source according to Ellinger Raleigh Register; no author given.
By William Withington. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title illustration of American eagle, American flag and George Washington. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: Ira Berry & Son, Printers, Cor. Fore and Exchange Sts., Portland.
By William Withington. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title illustration of American eagle, American flag and George Washington. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: Ira Berry & Son, Printers, Cor. Fore and Exchange Sts., Portland.
By William Withington. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title illustration of American eagle, American flag and George Washington. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: Ira Berry & Son, Printers, Cor. Fore and Exchange Sts., Portland.
Without music Date based on internal evidence Text of song in three eight-line stanzas, each with four-line chorus At foot of song sheet: Published by N. Bangs Williams, Nos. 113 and 115 Westminster Street, nearly opposite the Arcade, Providence, R.I Variant of Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets #2215
Song tells of hardships of Union soldiers robbed, starved and without shelter in southern prison camp but now ready for vengeance after exchange. Song tells of hardships of Union soldiers robbed, starved and without shelter in southern prison camp but now ready for vengeance after exchange. Within double-line border on three sides. At head of title vignette of flying eagle holding shield, olive branch and arrows. To be sung to the tune: Twenty years ago. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas. In lower margin below border: Carter, Hussey & Curl, Steam Printers, Des Moines.
Text within curvilinear line border with corner ornaments. The Providence Museum Company performed H.J. Conway's dramatization of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". (Cf. American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887. [Greenwood Press, 1986])
Text within curvilinear line border with corner ornaments. The Providence Museum Company performed H.J. Conway's dramatization of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". (Cf. American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887. [Greenwood Press, 1986])
Text within curvilinear line border with corner ornaments. The Providence Museum Company performed H.J. Conway's dramatization of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". (Cf. American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887. [Greenwood Press, 1986])
Within ornamental border. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. At end of text: E.A. Putnam, 9 Meridian St., East Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in red and blue within ornamental red border. At head of title cut in blue of boy riding pig and carrying sign inscribed: Clear the track. Coming from Dixie. To be sung to the tune: Twenty years ago. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.
Pages [2], [3], and [4] blank. Printed in two columns divided by single line; rule with decoration in center between title and text. Short account of Vermont's political history from 1762 to 1791, beginning with "The political history of Vermont is full of interest ..." in both columns below poem beneath rule. Dated according to information found in Currier's "Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier", p. 53: ...experts agree that the paper and typography are of later date than 1843, and the text includes, among other variants, three interesting verbal changes not included in any text yet noted before 1870.
by E.M. Souvielle. Printed in red, black and dark blue within red ornamental border. At head of title colored cut of American flag. To be sung to the tune: All coons look alike to me. Text of song in two thirteen-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Soldier boys look alike to me.
Poetry. Printed in black and reddish-brown. Below title cut in reddish brown of child setting type. Cover title. Reprint from The American Printer of 1885.
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