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. Printed area measures: 31.2 x 15.7 cm. 140 lines printed in two columns. Wood engraving of man at left of title. Internal evidence, e.g. type, continuation of long s into the 19th century, and unusual spacing, suggests Joseph White as printer. He printed in Boston, first in partnership, then alone from 1788 to 1809; in Charlestown, Mass., from 1810 to 1826. This edition not in Bristol, Evans, Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, or Shoemaker.
Announcement for play and concert and tantras at the Mandrake in Berkeley, printed in red and blue. Illustration of bed frame bordered by red rule in center.
To be sung to the tune: Scots wha hae' Contains score. Hymn in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Words by Amos Sutton. Lith. by WN Nassau St. N.Y. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. Words, without music, of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O, the Lyceum boys. O, the Lyceum boys. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence, especially mention of a tree planted in "the year thirty-three" that is now a "stately old tree."
To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. Words, without music, of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O, the Lyceum boys. O, the Lyceum boys. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence, especially mention of a tree planted in "the year thirty-three" that is now a "stately old tree."
To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. Words, without music, of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O, the Lyceum boys. O, the Lyceum boys. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence, especially mention of a tree planted in "the year thirty-three" that is now a "stately old tree."
Broadside printed on card stock. Verse prayer on recto, prose Answer on verso. At end of text on verso logotypoe with initials I.W.W., for Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies. Prayer in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Edward R. Campbell. Printed on birch bark; edges irregularly cut. Initial block. Poem in five five-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: From "The heroine of Scutari and other poems," 1857. This, and many other "Notable lyrics of Vermont," will soon appear in "Minstrels and minstrelsy of Vermont"--a select anthology prepared by the editor of Drift-Wind, and now in press. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.
Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper within embossed illustrated border. At head of title colored illustration of little girl reading to another girl and boy. Poem in two six-line stanzas. At end of poem: The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.--Matt. XX.28. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poetry. Initial block. Type signed at end of text: Cecil Hemley. Catalog entitled Unicorn Books 1966-1978 states item is overstock from Unicorn Folio Series I, no. 23 and was printed in edition of 25 copies.
Illustrations include row of animals at side borders, row of buildings and objects (hat, plow, etc.) at top border, row of ships at bottom border; at head of first column boy pointing out house to another boy; at head of center column tavern scene with men fighting; at head of third column man entering tavern; in third column at head of third poem man seated beside table. At head of third poem, in brackets below illustration: [From The temperance minstrel] At end of center column within border: By N. Boynton, Boston; at center below lower border: H. Bowen's Chemical Print Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Faded; hemmed on side and bottom edges; two small holes without loss of text or illustrations.
Printed on cotton cloth in three columns divided by lines of type ornaments within border of small illustrations. Illustrations include row of animals at side borders, row of buildings and objects (hat, plow, etc.) at top border, row of ships at bottom border; at head of first column boy pointing out house to another boy; at head of center column tavern scene with men fighting; at head of third column man entering tavern; in third column at head of third poem man seated beside table. At head of third poem, in brackets below illustration: [From The temperance minstrel] At end of center column within border: By N. Boynton, Boston; at center below lower border: H. Bowen's Chemical Print. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
