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.
Poem about adventures of a five dollar bill praises by name every Branford establishment it visits. Poem about adventures of a five dollar bill praises by name every Branford establishment it visits. By I.S. Browne. Printed in two columns. Between title and subtitle drawing of stone building bearing inscription "Blackstone Public Library." On page [4] time table of Shore Line Electric Railway Co. between Branford, Stony Creek and New Haven. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, including mention of autos and telephones along with wagons and carriages.
Printed in two columns divided by line of advertisement with type ornaments at ends between double lines: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2nd door from Friend Street, Boston. Left column contains Push along, keep moving, interspersed with prose; right column contains The Irish robber.
Printed in two columns divided by line of advertisement with type ornaments at ends between double lines: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2nd door from Friend Street, Boston. Left column contains Push along, keep moving, interspersed with prose; right column contains The Irish robber.
Poetry. Printed on pink silk ribbon. Below text vignette of sprig of leaves. Type-signed at end: Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
words by Peter Peppercorn. Poem in four stanzas on the Americas Cup race of 1855. Publisher dates based on research by the American Antiquarian Soc. from city directories, same-title publications in hand, textual references, and/or matching borders & fonts. Without music. Woodcut vignette of ship beneath title. "Air--'Yankee Doodle.'"--Above lyrics. At foot of song sheet: "A. W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa." This edition not in Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets.
words by Peter Peppercorn. Poem in four stanzas on the Americas Cup race of 1855. Publisher dates based on research by the American Antiquarian Soc. from city directories, same-title publications in hand, textual references, and/or matching borders & fonts. Without music. Woodcut vignette of ship beneath title. "Air--'Yankee Doodle.'"--Above lyrics. At foot of song sheet: "A. W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa." This edition not in Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets.
Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold within gold border on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of bird singing beside lake below and at right of text; on verso advertising material about liquid dentifrice Sozodont headed: Beautiful teeth the crown of beauty! Poem in three five-line stanzas about Sozodont on recto. Suggested publication date because Brown University copy acquired with another Sozodont card, Found (HB31326) which contains testimonial dated July 5, 1866.
Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold within gold border on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of bird singing beside lake below and at right of text; on verso advertising material about liquid dentifrice Sozodont headed: Beautiful teeth the crown of beauty! Poem in three five-line stanzas about Sozodont on recto. Suggested publication date because Brown University copy acquired with another Sozodont card, Found (HB31326) which contains testimonial dated July 5, 1866.
words and music by "The Daughter of the Regiment" For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the boys of Newspaper Row"--Cover. "Copyright, 1917, by Agnes Walker Lee Tracy"--P. 3. Cover illustration: U.S. eagle design.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in brown on heavy cream paper folded at top. Title from first line. Includes Latin translation and original English limerick. At end of text: The translation into Latin is attributed to Andrew Fleming West, first Dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in brown on heavy cream paper folded at top. Title from first line. Includes Latin translation and original English limerick. At end of text: The translation into Latin is attributed to Andrew Fleming West, first Dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University.
