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.
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. In lower margin below border: Printed at the "Press" Office, Lancaster, Pa.
Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Subtitle from first line. Printed on silk in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. Text of two songs, each in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
By Rev. F. H. Swender. Page [4] blank. Page [1] within mourning border. Words of two songs, the first sung to the tune "Way down upon the Swanee River" and the second to "Poor Nellie Gray." Publication date suggested from the date of the Johnstown Flood.
1 broadsheet; folded into thirds to create 6 pages. Cover title; with red and blue YMCA logo between title and imprint. Fourteen numbered songs; printed in blue.
Broadsheet. Text of three songs. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy and date of stadium ticket acquired with Brown University copy.
by Henry O'Rielly. Page [4] blank. Cover title. At head of title vignette of Jupiter brandishing thunder-bolt; below, clasped hands. At foot of title: (From the New-York Tribune) Below colophon on page [1]: Entered according to the act of Congress ... September, 1870.
Within ornamented line border. Dated by internal evidence. On verso: Two autographed verses in different hands. Last verse signed: Andy Moon; dated February 2nd, 1874.
Printed on pink paper in three columns divided by single lines. Suggested range of publication dates from mention of excursion of members of the society to California in April and May, 1890.
Page [4] blank. At head of text; [Note.--The following song composed by Mr. S.A. Clarke, ... was sung by Prof. T.H. Crawford, ... at the Pioneer re-union of 1878.]
by R. Thayer. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. At head of text of first song prose explanation of Thayer's addition of two stanzas to J.H. Payne's Home, sweet home. At end of second column: The sentiments of this song have been suggested by the sufferings of the poor, occasioned by the great snow-storm of January 17, 1867.
Printed in red and blue on heavy white paper folded to create [6] pages; within double-line borders. On page [1] cut of American eagle with shield and French and British flags; on pages [2]-[5] cuts of British, U.S., French and Italian flags; on last page reproduction of photograph of three sailors. Suggested range of publication dates from dates of United States participation in World War I.
Contains fourteen choruses and songs, beginning with: The Pilgrim fathers and including Union songs of the Civil War. References to ode by flower girls and semi-chorus of states suggest use in a pageant. Date from internal evidence.
Within single line border. Cover title. At head of text: Sung at the reading of the histories. Contains text of five songs, beginning with Lauriger Horatius in Latin.
Printed in one and two columns. Contains texts of eighteen numbered songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, including the presence of World War I songs, and acquisition date of Brown University copy.