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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Revenue stamps

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At head of text: As sung with immense success by Budd Harris.

Revelation

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Poem describes rescue of brother and sister from flood. Poem describes rescue of brother and sister from flood. Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Nelson and Sara Carter of New England by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. May 1936 A.D.

Reveille

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At end of text: D.C.R.

Rev. Samuel May, on his seventieth birthday: Sunday, April 11, 1880

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Page [4] blank. At end of text: W.L.G., Jr.

Rev. Mr. Sewall's Poem on the mode of baptism

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Second edition printed by S.K. Gilman

Rev. Mr. Sewall's Poem on the mode of baptism

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Second edition printed by S.K. Gilman

Rev. Mr. Sambo's sarmont

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Dialect sermon tells how Cain turned white after murdering his brother, originating the white race. Dialect sermon tells how Cain turned white after murdering his brother, originating the white race. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title wood-engraving of three black men, one in uniform holding broom and sword. At head of text: "Strate is de rode and narrer is de paff which leadef to glory." Contains four lines of poetry beginning: Adam was de fuss man. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Rev. James Walker, D.D.L.D.D: Ex-president of Harvard College. In memoriam

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At head of text: Reprinted from "Boston Post", Jan. 2. 1875.

Rev. Edward A. Renouf, 1818--November 15--1888

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Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title: Poem / by Rev. Caleb D. Bradlee. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication because Bradlee was a minister at a Boston church.

Rev. David Tappan's farewell hymn

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Ornamental border at top and bottom. Rev. David Tappan died in Cambridge, Mass. suggesting noted place of publication. Not in Shaw/Shoemaker, Ford, or Bristol.

Rev. A. M. Middlebrooks' letter of appeal

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Cover title. Below title on page [1] uncaptioned drawing of man in clerical collar, probably Middlebrooks. Includes poetry, appeal for help from the Southern white people for the Southern negroes, and excerpt from speech by the mayor of Atlanta. Suggested range of publication dates during E.P. Howell's term as mayor of Atlanta.

Reunion song of Pickering School, Salem, Mass: Wednesday, September 28, 1892

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by Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods. To be sung to the tune: America. Text of song in five numbered seven-line stanzas.

Reunion song

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1 broadsheet. Tune: Fair Harvard. At end of text: Annual reunion of the Girls' High School Association, May 21, 1884.

Reunion of the descendants of John Lee: Farmington, Connecticut, August 12th and 13th, 1896

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Reunion hymn: Again with fond remembrance

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Tune: "Webb." Within double line border. At head of title: Thompson Family Association. At end of text: C.E.T.

Reunion

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Returning to Store Bay

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by Barbara Howes. Page [4] blank. Printed in dark blue. "Christmas 1970."

Return: an unpublished poem

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by Robinson Jeffers. "Two hundred and fifty copies of this poem have been printed by the Grabhorn press ... for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., in December, 1934"--Colophon on p. [4] Below text of poem: Landscape ill. with caption: Eve[?] Sinet. Issued within two blank protective leaves in lettered orange limp boards. First line: A little too abstract, a little too wise.

Retrospective

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Within double line border. At head of text: By J. McM.

Retrospection

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Poem in seven four-line stanzas printed on light green laid paper. At end of text: Jay Tee, Junior. Author's name may be pseudonym of someone with initials J.T. Publication date derived from information in the Christmas poem: wishing "success in Nineteen-Twenty-seven."