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.
Broadsheet. At end of text: C. Advertising card with on verso colored illustration of two children with rhymed caption beginning: The first of all, the grandest thought in life. Advertisement for a soap called Pyle's Pearline. Date from internal evidence.
lines by Robert Burns, altered and adapted to suit the present times by James E. Murdoch. Caption title. Song in 6 stanzas with chorus beginning: Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue! First two stanzas printed within bars of music; other four stanzas printed below in two columns. Adaptation of Burns's song praises Lincoln, Meade, Grant and other Union personages.
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Text of song in eight eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Oh, Kentucky! the hunters of Kentucky. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet French-folded to create [8] pages. Printed in red, yellow and black on heavy paper. Cartoon-style illustrations throughout. Poem in nine four-line stanzas followed by prose information about automobile insurance. Type-signed at end of poem: S.E. Kiser. Date from Library of Congress date stamp on Brown University copy.
Broadsheet French-folded to create [8] pages. Printed in red, yellow and black on heavy paper. Cartoon-style illustrations throughout. Poem in nine four-line stanzas followed by prose information about automobile insurance. Type-signed at end of poem: S.E. Kiser. Date from Library of Congress date stamp on Brown University copy.
Richard Burton. Printed in red and black on white card stock; rubricated initial. Poem. On verso within ornamental border: The Cornhill Dodgers. Alfred Bartlett. 69 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
by David Hudson, poet laureate for the State of Delaware. Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Issued laid into lettered yellow paper folder. Cover title. Text on title continues: Dedicated to Terry Campus, Delaware Technical and Community College for presentation on September 20, 1976, Delaware Constitution Day. Includes eight numbered poems beginning with Symbolic.
by Ah Sin-ner. 1 broadsheet. Parody of Bret Harte's Plain language from Truthful James, or The heathen Chinee, published in 1870. Place of publication from mention of Tremont Temple; date from internal evidence.
by Ah Sin-ner. 1 broadsheet. Parody of Bret Harte's Plain language from Truthful James, or The heathen Chinee, published in 1870. Place of publication from mention of Tremont Temple; date from internal evidence.
by Ah Sin-ner. 1 broadsheet. Parody of Bret Harte's Plain language from Truthful James, or The heathen Chinee, published in 1870. Place of publication from mention of Tremont Temple; date from internal evidence.
Printed in red and black; vignette of satyr's head on page [1] Cover title. Publisher's flier for Dark kingdom by Kenneth Patchen; page [2] reproduces sample page 30 from book containing poem. Date from publication date of book.
Printed in red and black; vignette of satyr's head on page [1] Cover title. Publisher's flier for Dark kingdom by Kenneth Patchen; page [2] reproduces sample page 30 from book containing poem. Date from publication date of book.
May Sarton. Issued in an edition of 800 copies. Folded into thirds to fit into an envelope; additional crease at left margin around first fold. Poem on yellow-pink paper printed in red typeface. At end of poem: "Christmas, 1963" On verso of broadside: "Dear friends, twenty-five years ago I sent a Christmas poem to seventy-five of you; now your number has grown to eight hundred ... [printed signature] May Sarton.
May Sarton. Issued in an edition of 800 copies. Folded into thirds to fit into an envelope; additional crease at left margin around first fold. Poem on yellow-pink paper printed in red typeface. At end of poem: "Christmas, 1963" On verso of broadside: "Dear friends, twenty-five years ago I sent a Christmas poem to seventy-five of you; now your number has grown to eight hundred ... [printed signature] May Sarton.
by Sam Walter Foss. Poem. "Created by the Buzza Co., Minneapolis, U.S.A., by arrangement with Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 'Dreams in homespun.' ... [copyright] 1897 ..."--Colophon. Printed on beige card stock. First line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn in the peace of their self-content.
by Sam Walter Foss. Poem. "Created by the Buzza Co., Minneapolis, U.S.A., by arrangement with Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 'Dreams in homespun.' ... [copyright] 1897 ..."--Colophon. Printed on beige card stock. First line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn in the peace of their self-content.
by Sam Walter Foss. Poem. "Created by the Buzza Co., Minneapolis, U.S.A., by arrangement with Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 'Dreams in homespun.' ... [copyright] 1897 ..."--Colophon. Printed on beige card stock. First line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn in the peace of their self-content.
by Sam Walter Foss. Poem. "Created by the Buzza Co., Minneapolis, U.S.A., by arrangement with Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 'Dreams in homespun.' ... [copyright] 1897 ..."--Colophon. Printed on beige card stock. First line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn in the peace of their self-content.
Pages [1, 4] blank. Tipped in cover. On cover: ... Presented by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. at the twenty-ninth annual convention of the American Booksellers Association.
by Sam Walter Foss. Poem. "Created by the Buzza Co., Minneapolis, U.S.A., by arrangement with Lothrop, Lee & Shepard from 'Dreams in homespun.' ... [copyright] 1897 ..."--Colophon. Printed on beige card stock. First line: There are hermit souls that live withdrawn in the peace of their self-content.