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. 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.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. In lower margin, outside border: Advocate Job Office, Claremont, N.H.--J. Weber, Proprietor. Date from dates of newspaper, Claremont Advocate, and appearance of item.
Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Double printing with identical text but differing type ornament borders; meant to be separated. Separated, the broadsides would measure 30 x 12 cm; the printed areas measure 26.6 x 9.0 and 26.7 x 8.9 respectively. Possible range of dates suggested by borders.
Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Printed area measures: 26.2 x 9.0. Possible range of publication dates suggested by border of type ornaments. Copy same edition as second broadside on sheet of two broadsides with same title, meant to be separated, in Brown University's Broadsides Collection (cf. HB22516)
Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Printed area measures: 26.2 x 9.0. Possible range of publication dates suggested by border of type ornaments. Copy same edition as second broadside on sheet of two broadsides with same title, meant to be separated, in Brown University's Broadsides Collection (cf. HB22516)
In seven stanzas. At end of text: Timothy Coughlin, East Cambridge. Tune: Air, Father Tom O'Neil. Printed area: 20 x 5 cm. First line: The Father Mathew Temperance Men.
Poem in four numbered seven-line stanzas with varied two-line chorus usually beginning: O, ne'er may the sons of Columbia deplore. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet. Recto printed in one and two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments; verso in one column lacking border. At end of text on verso, inside border: Cassady & March, 8, Wilson's Lane.
Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed in three columns. Place from description of first song; date from appearance of item and because Washingtonian Temperance Society mentioned was founded in 1840. Cold water melodies compiled by J. Pierpont, 1842 ascribes Shall e'er, cold water be forgot to Pierpont and The drink that's in the drunkard's bowl to H. Reed. First line of first hymn: Friends of Temperance, one and all.
1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.
1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.
To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six stanzas. Date from appearance of item. First line: Can we forget the gloomy time.
Within single line border with corner ornaments. Contains 13 songs beginning with: America [First line: My country, 'tis of thee] Songs intended to be sung by children's choruses at the meetings. Date suggested from internal evidence; some songs are adapted from Union Civil War songs.
Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. By Mr. J.M. Newson, of Lancaster, Pa. To be sung to the tune: Rosin the bow. Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: And roll on the Temperance Ball. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.
words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.
words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.
Title from first line. Within border of type ornaments. Cut of woman's head at head of text. Advertisement for "Martha Washington" Hair Restorer. Simonds & Co., Proprietors, Fitzwilliam, N.H. A parody of A psalm of life, by H.W. Longfellow.
Printed in red, brown and green on recto and black on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. Below title caricature of woman hitting seated man on head with a bat; in balloon beside women: Viper to propose to me; in balloon beside man: Z-wing blang and I only asked to hold her hand. Below illustration five lines of words and music of refrain of song. Colophon at end: By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York. "No. 4600 music series"--Verso.