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.
piano arr. by Chas. J. Gebest; words & music by Geo. M. Cohan For voice and piano Caption title [Sung by]: Cohan & Harris Minstrels; George Evans and 100 Honey Boys Advertisements for other songs: p. [2 and 6-8] Cover illustration: portrait drawing of Cohan and Harris; drawing of minstrel performer
by Gen. W.H. Hayward, of Baltimore, Md. ; sung at the National Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, at Gettysburg, Pa., July 4, 1865, by the National Union Musical Association of Baltimore, under the direction of Prof. C.S. Root. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed within decorated line borders. The second poem "altered from a National Ode, published many years ago, and sung by the National Union Musical Association of Baltimore, at the laying of the Corner-Stone of the Gettysburg Monument, July 4th, 1865".
by Josiah Lord Thomas, Esq. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 32 four-line stanzas. Place and date of publication suggested because of clipping from Portland Advertiser Apr. 4, 1855 pasted on verso of Brown University copy.
Pages [2-4] blank. Poetry and prose. Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear lines on light gray paper. At head of text wood-engraving of weeping woman and boy holding broken anchor. Title from first lines. Compliments Rev. Thomas Tew, agent of the Rhode Island State Temperance Society. Place of publication indicated by anchor which is state seal of Rhode Island and from mention of R.I. Temperance Society; Man published other items in Providence. Date suggested by appearance of item. Includes quotation from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and lines possibly by Man beginning: Survey the world from Lapland to Peru.
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Text of song in 18 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Wood-engraving of royal arms of Great Britain inverted above title.. Poetry Printed in two columns divided by type ornaments enclosing statement: Printed [and sold at?] No. 25 High Street, Providence, with 200 other kinds of songs. In the Providence directories Trumbull is listed at this address from 1826 to 1836. Cf. Alden 492 and Winslow 65; not in Checklist Amer. imprints. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Fold damage with loss of text at center; edges trimmed; mounted.
David McCord. Printed in green and black on heavy ivory paper; title within green border of twigs bearing leaves and fruits. "Printed for the Garden in the Woods in Framingham, by The Stinehour Press." Publication date from author's ms. inscription dated "2 Nov. '74" on Brown University copy.