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. Caption title. Photo-mechanically reproduced visual poem created from type and manuscript. Publisher's note on Brown University copy states "'Where things are' was Blue Pig 17." Series is published in Northampton, Mass. by the Sand Project Press; no. 17 was published in 1972.
Poem ridicules Britain and predicts German victory in World War I. Poem ridicules Britain and predicts German victory in World War I. At head of text: Sung to The wearing of the green (Author shot for treason) Text of song in six eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: It's the awfulest country that ever you did see. At end of text: Copyright 1916. Orders for this poem [ ... ] by mail. Price 10 [ ... ] Postage Sta[ ... ] Address[ ... ] Alex McG. W[ ... ]
Printed on pink paper. First line same as title. Includes 18-line poem and publisher's note. At end of poem: Lucio Piccolo translated by Brian Swann & Ruth Feldman. "500 copies have been printed, 300 for the two translators and 200 for the publisher."
Printed in reddish-brown on green ground on glossy paper in postcard format. Type-signed at end: Lilith Lorraine. Publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Poem in two ten-line stanzas. At end of text: Dedicated to Peter Stavropoulos, William Roukas, Harry Erinakis and Truman H. Kimpton by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1929.
Printed on heavy cream paper. Prose poem. At end of text: From The famous boating party by Sam Hamod. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
words and music by George M. Cohan. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Dear little boy of mine": p. [4] "Get this song for your talking machine and player piano"--P. 2-3. Cover illustration: photograph of George M. Cohan; drawings of soldier and woman / S.
Song about runaway embezzler. Song about runaway embezzler. By Edward Atkins. To be sung to the tune: Dunderback's machine. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Then, oh, Major darling dear. At end of text below rule: Auner, Printer, Tenth & Race Streets, Phila. Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Reproduction of painting by Anne Bremer on p. [2]; and poem p. [3] within green ruled and black decorative border. Tied in cover bearing legend: Oh, call it by some better name, for friendship sounds too cold. / A merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Lilienthal.
by Ulrich Troubetzkoy. Page [4] blank. Printed in red and black on white paper. On page [1] illustration of snow-covered church. Caption title. "Reprint from New York Herald tribune." Place and date of publication information from donor.
words by Anthony Rossi ; music by Chris. Praetorius. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement for another song: p. [4]
Printed on card stock. Title from first line. At head of text photograph of woman and girl visiting poor family pasted on. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poetry. Text of song in four stanzas of varying length with chorus beginning: When your Uncle Sammy to our country makes appeal. Type-signed at end: Copyright May, 1918 by H. Hansen. Place of publication from notarized statement attached to Brown University copy.
by Gordon V. Thompson. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: Soldier embracing woman in striped dress; photographs of Gordon V. Thompson and John Slatter. Also published for: orchestra and band, mixed or male quartette or chorus.