Performance and Entertainment

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.
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Items in this collection

Telegraph messengers' New Year's greeting: 1880

Printed in blue and black. On page [1] cut of messenger boy holding paper inscribed: Happy New Year; on page [4] cut of hand holding jagged lightning flashes. Poem within double-line border printed over combined width of pages [2]-[3], with decorated initial. Cover title.

Telegraph messenger's holiday greeting

Printed on pink paper; cut of messenger on page [1] within ornamental frame; cut of relief carving of Cupid on page [4] captioned: Happy New Year. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Compliments of messenger boy. Date supplied when purchased in 1925.

Teddy's dawg

Teddy's dawg

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Casey Jones. Poetry. Within red single-line border. Cut of bulldog on red ground at top center of border; cut of hat labelled T. R. at bottom center. In upper left-hand corner at head of title: Republican National Convention, Coliseum, Chicago, Ill. June, 1912. Song in three stanzas with chorus. In lower right-hand corner: Supplied by the Patterson-Gibbs Advertising Co. (The Wallace Press) Chicago. First line: Teddy's gotta dawg, but he ain't no hound.

Tears wiped away

Tears wiped away

Brown University

Within blue ornamental border. At head of text: "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." At end of text within border: No. 40.

Team work

Team work

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text: With best wishes from The National Education Association. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Teach the children

Teach the children

Brown University

Broadsheet. Within single line border. Cut of flying dove at head of text on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tea-table chat

Tea-table chat

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Tea-table chat

Tea-table chat

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold, wholesale and retail, corner of Merchant's Row and Market Square (up stairs)--Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1829 to 1831.

Tea tax: and, Humble wish

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules: Sold wholesale and retail, by J.G. & H. Hunt, at the N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. At head of first columns wood-engraving of Chinese man holding tea plant; at head of second wood-engraving of ship beside wharf. At head of text: Sung with unbounded applause, at the Boston Theatre, by Mr. Andrews.

Tea tax

Tea tax

Brown University

Woodcuts of agricultural implements and of eagle and ship at head of text. At head of text: Sung with unbounded applause at the Boston Theatre, by Mr. Andrews. Date suggested from internal evidence and because G.H. Andrews first appeared in Boston in 1827.

Tea party

Tea party

Brown University

by Sheila Hackney. Page [2] blank. Cover title. At head of title on page [3] drawing of woman's head. Poem in 14 lines. "100 signed copies for sale. No. [blank]"

Taxes

Taxes

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Folded into thirds, creating six pages. Contains poetry.

Taxation of America

Taxation of America

Brown University

Poetry in 37 eight-line stanzas printed in five columns divided by double lines. To be sung to the tune: Ye parliaments of England. As noted by W.C. Ford in "Broadsides, ballads etc.": Duyckinck attributes the poem to Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Conn., but it has also been atttibuted to Peter St. John of Norwalk, Conn. At end of fifth column: New-York: Stereotyped, printed and sold, at 71, Greenwich-Lane. Two cuts at head of title; on left harbor scene captioned "Throwing over the tea in Boston Harbour, 1773"; on right battle scene and burning buildings captioned "Battle of Bunker's Hill, and burning of Charlestown--June 17 1773" [i.e. 1775] Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence and dateable broadside printed at same address in 1840. This edition not in Checklist Amer. Imprints or Ford.

Taxation of America

Taxation of America

Brown University

Poetry in 37 numbered eight-line stanzas printed in five columns divided by single lines. American eagle with banner bearing legend "E pluribus unum" at head of title. Between title and text lozenge type ornament. As noted by W.C. Ford in "Broadsides, ballads etc.": Duyckinck attributes it to Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Conn., but it has also been given to Peter St. John of Norwalk, Conn. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. typeface, etc. This edition not in Shaw/Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. Imprints or Ford.