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 printed in colors on heavy white paper. At head of text on recto colored illustration of landscape with barn and church. On recto poem in four four-line stanzas. On verso good wishes headed: Beloved Fellow Member. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
George R. Gillespie. Broadsheet printed in purple and black on glossy white paper in one column on recto and two on verso. On verso reproduction of photograph of George R. Gillespie with reproduction of article about him from the Virginian-Pilot and the Portsmouth star, Nov. 9, 1958. Includes prose and poetry. Newspaper article includes excerpt from Gillespie's Just four Unknown Soldiers beginning Come friends, lie down beside me here where spring breezes whisper soft and guards walk overhead to keep us safe.
Printed in dark blue on one side of blue envelope within border of type ornaments. Poem in eight lines. Below poem dark blue shield inscribed in light blue: The Plaza Card Shop. Advertises the Plaza Card Shop, 114 Westminster St., Providence, R.I. Below envelope flap: Cohoes Envelope Co., Cohoes, N.Y. & New York City. Made in U.S.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Joseph Clark. Within a double-line border. Printed in blue. At head of poem: Printed illustration of a cross and a rising sun. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet. On recto Programme for anniversary celebration, including singing of Anniversary song. On verso words of Anniversary song to be sung to the tune: Marching through Georgia. Song in three seven-line stanzas beginning: Lift your voices, one and all, with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah! hurrah! how time has taken flight!
Page [4] blank. Printed within border of double rules. Contains order of exercises and programme of songs. First hymn: A home beyond the tide, beginning: We are out on the ocean, sailing.
At head of title colored wood-engraving of man wearing monocle and holding tennis racket. Poem in eight lines. Comic valentine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poetry. Within double-line border, with outer line heavier. Poem in five eight-line stanzas with refrain: Fire away! urges defense of Tennessee against Yankee invaders.
Poetry. Title from first line. Below poem watercolor drawing of landscape initialed: E.C.S. Manuscript poem in three three-line stanzas and one two-line stanza. At end of text: B.N. 1947. B. N. is known to have lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s (see Hay Broadsds Harris HB33346 MA)
Calls for ten-hour day, with one-hour lunch break. Calls for ten-hour day, with one-hour lunch break. Within chain type-ornament border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Richard Driver, Valley Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates because ten-hour law was being discussed in Rhode Island General Assembly in 1885 and later.
Parody of Longfellow's Excelsior in which a girl factory worker carries a banner inscribed: Ten Hour Law. Parody of Longfellow's Excelsior in which a girl factory worker carries a banner inscribed: Ten Hour Law. by Jericho. Poem in nine four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; must be after the publication of Excelsior in 1842.
At end of text: Signed, sealed and delivered by Critic. Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 4 cantos discusses Prohibition in unnamed state, possibly Maine. Date from internal evidence.
Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.
Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.