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 on heavy yellow paper cut into shape of four-petalled flower. Gelatin silver print of woman's head collaged into center. Photo by Oaranos. Abstract totem-like image printed in blue and red on verso. Poem entitled Epomene on top and side petals.
by the Rev. Charles S. Vedder, D.D. Stitched in paper wrapper lettered in red and black. Printed in red and black with rubricated initial. Cover title. Cover title continues: Read at the celebration by the Huguenot Society of Charleston, S.C., April 14, 1890, of the promulgation of the Edict of Nantz--1598. On page [4]: Five hundred copies printed for the use of the author, on Holland paper from Elzevir type, by an appreciative friend. Charleston, S.C., May, 1890.
By Gen. Horace Binney Sargent. Page [4] blank except for border. Within mourning border. At head of title cut of American flag at half-mast. Cover title. "Written by request for the funeral obsequies of General Grant, in the City of Los Angeles, California." Poem in 13 four-line stanzas.
Nicolas Dixon. At head of title abstract design. Poem in three numbered stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nicolas Dixon. Empty House Press. 25 April, 1970.
Nicolas Dixon. At head of title abstract design. Poem in three numbered stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nicolas Dixon. Empty House Press. 25 April, 1970.
Broadsheet printed on heavy glossy white paper within different border of type ornament sections on each side. Includes on both sides text of temperance songs for meeting of Cadets of Temperance. Verso, headed: Cadets of Temperance, begins with untitled song with first line: I pledge to thee this hand of mine. Songs grouped under headings: Opening, Initiation, Installation, and Closing. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in brown and black on ivory paper. Illustrations include map of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a dune landscape, plants and naked man. Periodical includes fiction, poetry, and information about the California coast and its plants.
Broadsheet printed in brown and black on ivory paper. Illustrations include map of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a dune landscape, plants and naked man. Periodical includes fiction, poetry, and information about the California coast and its plants.
lyric by Marion Phelps ; music by Clarence Brandon. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedication: to W. B. B. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: a child saying a bedtime prayer for a blue star.
Invitation in verse to party at Mrs. Sewall's house to "help the Irving's festal night" and "endow our room in the hospital." Invitation in verse to party at Mrs. Sewall's house to "help the Irving's festal night" and "endow our room in the hospital." Pages [2]-[4] blank. Title from first line. Printed on paper with deckled right edges. Sixteen-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
words by F.E. Hathaway ; music by Leo Friedman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: girl sitting on window seat / Helen Smith.