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.
Printed in three columns on pages 1 and 4 and four columns on pages 2-3 divided by single lines. Title superimposed on vignette of man riding horseback towards mountains At head of text: Compliments of Captain Jack Crawford. Contains 14 poems by Capt. Jack Crawford, beginning with Under the sod. Announcement of play, Capt. Jack, with cast of characters including Crawford.
by Samuel C. Upham, a "Forty-niner" Printed in two columns divided by single line. Caption title. At head of title: The following poem written for the occasion, was read by the author at the celebration of the Twenty-Seventh Anniversary of the admission of California into the Union, held at the Ocean Hotel, Long Beach, N.J., Sept 8th, 1877, under the auspices of "The Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California"
To be sung to the tune: Marching through Georgia. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The land! the land! 'twas God who gave the land! At end of text: Study the economic principles of the land question. Three booklets on the Singletax, and The Public 13 weeks 25 cts. Address The Public, Ellsworth Bldg., Chicago. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because of mention of the "single tax," popular in the 1890s.
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Authors' names not given on broadsides; see Thomas L. Philbrick in Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, for attribution. Woodcut of Neptune at left of title. This edition not in Ford. At end of text below double rule: Printed by N. Coverly, No. 16, Milk-Street, Boston. Uniform title for Erin go brah "The exile of Erin.
First line same as title. Within ornamental border. Text of hymn in seven six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Faber. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
First line same as title. Within ornamental border. Text of hymn in seven six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Faber. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
First line same as title. Within ornamental border. Text of hymn in seven six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Faber. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poem describes work of lamplighter and hints at request for a tip. Poem describes work of lamplighter and hints at request for a tip. Poetry. Caption title. Within border of type ornaments. Wood-engraving of lamplighter climbing ladder between title and poem. At head of title: January 1, 1818. This comes greeting! A suit is instituted as regular in custom as the year comes round, in a civil action as set forth in the writ against the body politic, by the plaintiff, legally termed The Lamplighter. Poem in four four-line stanzas with two-line refrain and one six-line stanza with two-line refrain.
Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 21.5 x 11.9 cm. At head of text: Portraying the feelings of an Irish peasant previous to his leaving home, calling up the scenes of his youth, under the painful reflection of having buried his wife and child, and what his feelings will be in America. Publication date suggested because printed on sheet with a poem written in 1846. Printed on single sheet with A parody on The lament of the Irish emigrant, each in separate border; possibly intended to be separated.