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

Poor old slave

Poor old slave

Brown University

Poetry without music in three eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: The poor old slave has gone to rest. Text within pictorial border (same as B in Wolf: Wrigley Ethiopian) Colophon in lower border: H. De Marsan. Dealer in songs, toy books, &c. No. 54 Chatham, N.Y. H. De Marsan is listed at above address between 1861 and 1865. The text of the poem is attributed to G.W.H. Griffin.

Poor old Bill: comic song

words and music by Seneca G. Lewis. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for "On the road to home sweet home": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of Kaiser Bill / Starmer.

Poor old Bill: comic song

words and music by Seneca G. Lewis. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for "On the road to home sweet home": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of Kaiser Bill / Starmer.

Poor Billy

Poor Billy

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Poor Billy

Poor Billy

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Pompeii

Pompeii

Brown University

At head of title: From the Boston Courier, June 11th, 1871. At end of text: Cedar Hill, West Roxbury.

Polly, the female soldier

Poem in nine numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Polly Tilley's shop

Polly Tilley's shop

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. Printed in two columns. At head of text: (Written expressly for the Christmas Visitor by Lieut. Governor Charles C. Van Zandt)

Politics

Politics

Brown University

Poem. Title from caption on p. [2] At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Boat House, Wakefield, R.I. Sept. 10th, 1906.

Political polliwogs

Political polliwogs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Cover title. At head of poem on page [2]: Respectfully dedicated to Wm. McKinley that is and is to be, President of the United States. Reprint of letter of acknowledgement from J.A. Porter, Secretary to the President dated Washington, Nov. 20, 1899, on page [3]

Political democracy, as it exists and practically works

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in black and red on heavy brown paper with rubricated initial. Cover text within red double-line border with corner and center ornaments; at head and end of text page double lines with ornaments. Type-signed at end of text: Walt Whitman (1871)

Political democracy, as it exists and practically works

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in black and red on heavy brown paper with rubricated initial. Cover text within red double-line border with corner and center ornaments; at head and end of text page double lines with ornaments. Type-signed at end of text: Walt Whitman (1871)

Poland tragedy

Poland tragedy

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Tune: Major's only son. At end of text: O.K.Y. Probable author O.K. Yates.

Poland

Poland

Brown University

Poem in two six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: William Kimberley Palmer. November 2, 1925.

Poetry returns to Hampstead

Illustrations include drawing and reproductions of photographs of poets. Announces poetry readings with jazz Saturday Feb. 4 at Hampstead Town Hall. Poets include Daniel Abse, Anselm Hollo and Jon Silkin. Suggested publication date from last date mentioned; Feb. 4 fell on Saturday in 1961.