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 in two columns. At head of first column wood-engraving of three soldiers standing in encampment with tents and cannons; according to Ford, the cut was used during this time period by different Massachusetts printers. Two poems on same subject, the second by Thomas Paine.
Poetry. Printed in two columns. At head of first column wood-engraving of three soldiers standing in encampment with tents and cannons; according to Ford, the cut was used during this time period by different Massachusetts printers. Two poems on same subject, the second by Thomas Paine.
By Tommy Ray dedicated to my dead pals killed on Lusitania, May 7, 1915. Poetry in thirty-five stanzas printed in black within mourning border. At end of text within border: Price ten cents.
Printed in two columns on heavy paper. Poem in 16 four-line stanzas. In lower margin below rule: The above poem was read at the funeral services of Mrs. T.E. Jackson, at Marlboro, Mass., August 31, 1890, by Rev. F.S. Rice.
Caption title. Typesigned at end beneath centered short rule: Walt Whitman. Proof sheet of text of memorial tribute to Carlyle for the Boston Literary World's issue of February 12, 1881. Feinberg, Walt Whitman; A Selection of the Manuscripts, ... #[242]
Caption title. Typesigned at end beneath centered short rule: Walt Whitman. Proof sheet of text of memorial tribute to Carlyle for the Boston Literary World's issue of February 12, 1881. Feinberg, Walt Whitman; A Selection of the Manuscripts, ... #[242]
Caption title. Typesigned at end beneath centered short rule: Walt Whitman. Proof sheet of text of memorial tribute to Carlyle for the Boston Literary World's issue of February 12, 1881. Feinberg, Walt Whitman; A Selection of the Manuscripts, ... #[242]
Poem. At end of text: Eugene Field. Printed on beige paper; two matching floral designs printed in green around title and early verses. First line: Last night, as my dear babe lay dead.
At end of text: Denise Levertov. Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed on buff paper, to the right of vertical rule. First line: Like this it happened.
Within border of type ornament sections (Wolf J, Auner-Johnson border) First line same as title. To be sung to the tune: I'm lonely since my mother died. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The day I saw my mother die. This edition not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in red, pink and black on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. On recto reproduction of tinted photograph of six actors, including Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney, posed in costume in stage setting. Title from first lines of photograph caption. On verso information about play Life with Father by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse based on stories by Clarence Day. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.