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

The latter day attack on Roger Williams

Poem, in 15 stanzas. Title from caption. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Dec. 24, 1906, Washington, D.C. Pages [3]-[4] blank. First line: Where the wish is the father of the thought.

The latter day attack on Roger Williams

Poem, in 15 stanzas. Title from caption. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Dec. 24, 1906, Washington, D.C. Pages [3]-[4] blank. First line: Where the wish is the father of the thought.

The latest comic songs of Harry Bailey, with Whittier's show

Page [2] blank. Folded at top. Printed in two columns divided by single line, within double-line border with ornamental corners on page [1] only. At center of title wood-engraving of Harry Bailey. Cover title. Text of six songs beginning with Yankee duet. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The late, last rook

The late, last rook

Brown University

Poetry in two six-line stanzas. At head in upper right above illustration: Price - Twopence, plain. Fourpence, coloured. Typesigned at end of poem: Ralph Hodgson. Above title, illustration of church and houses against evening sky; above colophon medallion-type illustration of scarecrow. Colophon at end in lower margin: Printed by A.T. Stevens, of 55 St. Martins Lane, in the city of Westminster, for Flying Fame, 45 Roland Gardens, London, S.W., where copies may be had from the Secretary. "One thousand copies of each were printed towards the end of 1913"--Millard,C. Printed work of C.L. Fraser, p.4. Decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. Cf. Millard, p. 1.

The late Miss Jennie E. Cramer: New Haven, Conn

Broadsheet advertising card printed on heavy paper. On recto lithograph of head-and-shoulders portrait of young woman on easel; at lower right on palette: Compliments of Geo. Wm. Reed Bitter Co., New Haven, proprietors Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic, a true specific for malaria & indigestion; at lower left: Shober & Carqueville Chicago. Illustration caption: The late Miss Jennie E. Cramer, New Haven, Conn., found dead on the beach at West Haven, Conn. Aug. 5th, 1881, supposed to have been murdered. On verso poem in three eight-line stanzas entitled: The death of Jennie E. Cramer, beginning: Dying, away from home and friends.

The last words of Polly Goold

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments and line of advertising. Printed area measures: 23.0 x 14.5 cm. Wood-engraving of coffin at left of title. Poem in sixteen six-line stanzas. Printed vertically between columns: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun'r. Corner of Theatre-Alley, Boston. Boston directories first list Coverly at this address in 1810; American Antiquarian Society copy presented to society in 1814. First line: Give ear to me, ye sons of men.

The last words of Polly Goold

Poetry in sixteen six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail, by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2, Mercantile Wharf, Boston. Within border of type ornament sections. The firm was listed at above address between 1837 and 1841. Cut of landscape with weeping willow at head of title in first column. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

The last words of Polly Goold

Poetry in sixteen six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail, by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2, Mercantile Wharf, Boston. Within border of type ornament sections. The firm was listed at above address between 1837 and 1841. Cut of landscape with weeping willow at head of title in first column. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

The last words of Polly Goold

Poetry in 16 six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.7 x 16.2 cm. At left of title wood-engraving of coffin lettered P.G. Type and type setting are identical to those of Hay Broadsds copy (HB19548) with cut of Virgin in Glory, authoratively attributable to the printer Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., who is known to have printed in Salem, Mass., in 1798 and 1799; internal evidence suggests an 18th century publication date.

The last words of Polly Goold

Printed area measures 27.3 x 15.9 cm. Poetry in sixteen six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Cut of the Virgin in glory at left of title. Same cut used on broadsides authoritatively attributed to the printer Nathaniel Coverly, Jr; internal evidence suggests an 18th century publication date. Coverly is known to have printed in Salem, Mass.,in 1798 and 1799.

The last words of Polly Goold

Poetry printed in two colums. Printed area measures:24.7 x 16.4 cm. At left of title wood-engraving of coffin. Type closely resembles that used for " Polly Goold" broadsides attributed to the printer Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., but type setting and spacing differs. The latter suggests Joseph White as printer, who from 1788 to 1809, first in partnership, then alone, printed in Boston and later Charleston, Mass., continuing to use the long s into the 19th century. Cf. Ford 3214.

The last words of Polly Goold

Printed in two columns divided by single line with type ornament below title. Individual broadsides would measure: 29 x 23 cm. Printed area measures: 24.1 x 14.5 cm. Poem in sixteen six-line stanzas. The poem is a combination of two poems; the last eight stanzas are Wells Currier's Elegy on the death of Miss Gould. Possible range of publication dates suggested by internal evidence, especially type faces. Sheet with four broadsides, meant to be separated; two broadsides printed upside down in relation to other two. Sheet contains following broadsides: The major's only son, and his true love's overthrow (First line: Come all young people, far and near) -- A night watch, or the Song of a young convert, on his bed, during the silent watches of the night (First line: How can I sleep while angels sing) -- The happy child (First line: You parents that have children dear) -- The last words of Polly Goold (First line: Give ear to me, ye sons of men)

The last sensation

The last sensation

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within border of type ornaments. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last sensation

The last sensation

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within border of type ornaments. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last sensation

The last sensation

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within border of type ornaments. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The Last race of the rail-splitter

Within double line border printed in two columns. At head of title: Cut of running Afro-American with pack. At end of text: -*It will not be forgotten that Lincoln, after his election... Verse.

The last glass

The last glass

Brown University

Poetry. Poem tells how speaker has given up drink. At end of text: Since the above gay and festive youth swore off, he has braced up and purchased a hat, a pair of cuff buttons, a sett of shirt studs, and a biled shirt at Franklin's 99 Cent Store, 252 Essex St., the cheapest place in Salem. Date from appearance of item. First line: No, thank you, not any to night, boys, for me.

The last days of the monarchs

Carol Lee Sanchez. Printed on ivory paper in two columns within lines of type ornaments at top and bottom. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. "From: Conversations from the nightmare, by Carol Lee Sanchez. Available from Casa Editorial ...." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last constitution

The last constitution

Brown University

Attacks new constitution proposed for Rhode Island and praises T.W. Dorr, the "lawful Governor." Attacks new constitution proposed for Rhode Island and praises T.W. Dorr, the "lawful Governor." Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 29.4 x 8.3 cm. Poem in thirteen four-line stanzas with varying four-line refrain. At end of text: A Dorrite Lady. Printed on single sheet with The Suffrage boys and Providence Chronicle's alarm; intended to be separated; measurement if separated: 30 x 11 cm.

The Las Vegas cowboys reunion

by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. On recto text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: With angora chaps en carnival hats. On verso, headed: "She's 7 year old this July," invitation to seventh cowboys reunion July 4-6, 1921.