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

Mrs. John Drew's Arch St. Theatre index. Jos. D. Murphy, business agent & treasurer: Saturday eve'g, Dec. 27, 1873. M...

Printed in three columns of unequal size divided by single line with wider center column framed by single-line border; all within triple-line border. Title from first lines; subtitle from first lines of center column. Center column playbill for A. Daly's Flash of lightning. First column headed: Violetta Colville praises Colville's singing in Linda di Chamonix at the Municipal Theatre.

Mrs. John Drew's Arch St. Theatre index. Jos. D. Murphy, business agent & treasurer: Saturday eve'g, Dec. 27, 1873. M...

Printed in three columns of unequal size divided by single line with wider center column framed by single-line border; all within triple-line border. Title from first lines; subtitle from first lines of center column. Center column playbill for A. Daly's Flash of lightning. First column headed: Violetta Colville praises Colville's singing in Linda di Chamonix at the Municipal Theatre.

Mrs. Babbitt's Christmas present: To Florence Lewis Smalley Babbitt

Poem in 52 lines headed: The relic humter. Type-signed at end: Helen E.C. Balmer. Lansing, Mich., Dec. 25, 1906. In lower margin, bracketed: Mrs. Balmer is Past Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the author of the popular and appropriate songs in use by the O.E.S. and L.O.T.M.

Mr. M. B. Curtis as Sam'l of Posen

Printed on heavy paper; pages [1] and [4] within different ornamental borders; pages [2] and [3] within single-line borders. On page [1] cut of man wearing long overcoat and derby hat and carrying two cases, captioned: The commercial drummer; at sides of figure: Der drummer is the most innocent man on the road. Cover title. On pages [2]-[3] humorous prose pieces about drummers, or traveling salesmen. Dialect poem on page [4] has eight four-line stanzas; last line of each stanza is: Der Drummer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Mr. Johnson, don't get gay!

words & music by Dave Reed. March for voice and piano Cover title At head of title: A bit of real coon sarcasm Sung by: Freddie Reed Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-5] Advertisement for "Euphonic varsoviana" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Freddie Reed; floral border design, printed in orange ink

Mr. Joe Louis: a befitting honor to the pride of our race, Mr. Joe Louis

Printed on pink paper. Issued in lettered illustrated green paper wrapper. On front cover, page [1] and page [4] reproductions of photographs of Louis with his wife and manager; on page [2] collage of African American athletes and white children. Caption title. Above illustration on page [1]: Joe Louis, gentleman of merit and pugilist. Poem in six four-line stanzas. On back cover advertising for other poetry books by Noble Wiley. Suggested publication date from mention of Louis's birth "just about twenty one years ago."

Mr. Dempster's ballad soirees: New York Society Library

Page [1] within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Mr. Dempster has the honor to announce that his second ballad soiree, will be given at the N.Y. Society Library, on Friday evening, June 14th. Date suggested because appearance of item indicates the 1840s and June 14 fell on a Friday in 1844.

Mr. Arnold said

Mr. Arnold said

Brown University

Poem satirizes Rhode Island politics; speaker denies that, because he is paid by a railroad, he corruptly favors the railroad's interests. Poem satirizes Rhode Island politics; speaker denies that, because he is paid by a railroad, he corruptly favors the railroad's interests. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Date from ms. notation (by author?) on Brown University Harris copy. Author's name from ms. notation on Brown University copies.

Mr. A. Vane-Tempest as "Griggs."

Printed in black on recto and brown on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of three actors and two actresses in early 20th-century dress standing on interior stage set. Title from left part of caption. Caption names actors and their characters in "Never say die." At head of title: 6920 C Rotary Photo, E.C. Photograph by Foulsham & Banfield, Ltd. W. On verso: Printed in Britain. Rotary photographic series. This is a real photograph. Suggested place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Mozart: a poem

Mozart: a poem

Brown University

C.D. Bradlee, pastor of the Harrison Square Church, Boston, Mass. Pages [2, 4] blank. At head of title: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, born January 27th, 1767, at Salzburg. Died December 5th, 1791.

Mournful tragidy (i.e. tragedy) of the Major's only son, or Crazy Jones: --A true story.--Hollis, N.H. 1787

Poetry. Printed area measures: 22.1 x 16.2 cm. 27 stanzas of four lines each printed in three columns; a shortened, variant version of the Major's only son. Between title and text, flanked by sections of type ornaments, two line drawings of hearts bearing legends. Publication date approximation suggested by internal evidence. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, or Shoemaker.

Mournful tragidy (i.e. tragedy) of the Major's only son, or Crazy Jones: --A true story.--Hollis, N.H. 1787

Poetry. Printed area measures: 22.1 x 16.2 cm. 27 stanzas of four lines each printed in three columns; a shortened, variant version of the Major's only son. Between title and text, flanked by sections of type ornaments, two line drawings of hearts bearing legends. Publication date approximation suggested by internal evidence. This edition not in Ford, Shaw & Shoemaker, or Shoemaker.

Mountain mares

Mountain mares

Brown University

1 broadsheet. On cover: Greetings of the season from Barbara and Raymond Holden. At end of text: Written in Aspen, Colorado, but sent from Newport, New Hampshire.

Mountain mares

Mountain mares

Brown University

1 broadsheet. On cover: Greetings of the season from Barbara and Raymond Holden. At end of text: Written in Aspen, Colorado, but sent from Newport, New Hampshire.