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.
Invitation, dated Dec. 10, 1829, for ball on Jan. 2, 1830 at the hall of Mr. Wm. Smith in Scituate; printed signatures of Nathaniel P. P. Brown and three other managers. Invitation, dated Dec. 10, 1829, for ball on Jan. 2, 1830 at the hall of Mr. Wm. Smith in Scituate; printed signatures of Nathaniel P. P. Brown and three other managers. Within quadruple border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 8.6 x 9.7 cm.
Telegraphic messengers ask tip and wish only joyful telegrams for patrons. Telegraphic messengers ask tip and wish only joyful telegrams for patrons. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poetry. Printed in red and green on page [1] within green border of type oranment sections, in black on page [3] within double-line border with ornamental corners. Wood-engraving in green of hand tapping telegraph key at center of title. Cover title. At head of text: Address.
New Year poem compares the past year to a tree and mentions the schools and library in Pontiac. New Year poem compares the past year to a tree and mentions the schools and library in Pontiac. Printed on pink paper in two columns divided by single line; remains of ornamental border at sides of title. Poem in 23 seven-line stanzas.
Within ornamental border. At head of text: A few lines in behalf of our aged friend and brother, Silas Crane, who hath become infirm and incapacited for labor ..
Poetry. Broadsheet printed in red and black on cream paper folded to create [6] pages; last page blank. Title from first lines on facing page when opened. On page [1] drawing in red signed with uncertain initial and dated 17 Nov. 69.
Broadsheet printed in colors; text on verso in reddish brown. On recto colored illustration of goldfinch and flowers within embossed ornamental border, captioned: With kind regards and best wishes. On verso poem in four six-line stanzas. Title from verso. Poem type-signed: G. P. M. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in colors; text on verso in reddish brown. On recto colored illustration of goldfinch and flowers within embossed ornamental border, captioned: With kind regards and best wishes. On verso poem in four six-line stanzas. Title from verso. Poem type-signed: G. P. M. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in colors; text on verso in reddish brown. On recto colored illustration of goldfinch and flowers within embossed ornamental border, captioned: With kind regards and best wishes. On verso poem in four six-line stanzas. Title from verso. Poem type-signed: G. P. M. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poetry in five three- and four-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: America. Type-signed initials at end: T.W.C. Dated according to manuscript notation.
Probably intended to be separated. Wood-engraving of black woman playing guitar below title. Printed in five columns divided by single lines. In lower margin: Sold by Peter Mead, 38 Strawberry Street, Philadelphia. Price 3 cents. Date suggested because Jim Crow mentions South Carolina nullification controversy. With: 101 verses : Jim Crow.
by Archibald MacLeish. Also symposium following play. Stanley Burnshaw, critic of New Masses; John Howard Lawson, playwright; V.I. Jerome, author of original Newsboy; Archibald MacLeish, author of "Panic." Sat, March 16 [1935] 8:15 P.M. Imperial Theatre .. Orange sheet printed in black.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text in first column: At the anniversary of the Connecticut agricultural societies, for cattle shows, fairs, and exhibitions of domestic manufactures, for 1822.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed September, 17th. 1811. At head of text of first poem: The following was written in consequence of a Lady having in her walks, during a residence in the country, met a poor mad woman, known by the above appellation, at whose appearance the Lady was much alarmed. The first poem is attributed to M.G. Lewis and the second to T. Campbell in Thomas L. Philbrick's "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.
Tune: Rory O'More. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title: [Price two cents] Woodcut of girl in landscape in upper half of broadside. First line: Let us list to the song of the factory girl.
