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, in 16 stanzas. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the managers and contributors. Printed in two columns divided by a single line; within double line border. First line: See where it lies! while roughest workmen toil.
Poem, in 16 stanzas. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the managers and contributors. Printed in two columns divided by a single line; within double line border. First line: See where it lies! while roughest workmen toil.
Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Written by L.A.F.S., early one winter's morning, after having awoke from a dream. Within mourning border. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Page [4] blank. Within single- line border with ornamental corners. Poem in 18 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: J.H.H. Vehslage. New York, October 2, 1854.
By Mrs. J.F. Humphrey. Poem in seven four-line stanzas with four-line refrain. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and information from bookseller.
by Harriett E. Mansfield, on the death of her mother. Printed on gray paper. At head of text: These lines were written by Harriett E., ten days before her own death. Her age was 17 years. Poem in nine four-line stanzas.
Poem in fifteen stanzas and an acrostic of ten lines spelling Richard Lee. Printed area measures 22.2 x 15.8 cm. Parentheses substituted for square brackets around "R. Island" in imprint transcription. The earliest printing known in Warren, R.I., was done by Nathaniel Phillips in 1792. Text in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; at end of second column line of type ornaments, separating text and imprint. Wegelin records with cut at head of title which is not present on American Antiquarian Society or Brown University copies.
Within mourning border, printed in two columns divided by heavy black rule. Coffin at head of text. At end of text: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner Theatre Alley.
Within mourning border, printed in two columns divided by heavy black rule. Coffin at head of text. At end of text: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner Theatre Alley.
Within mourning border, printed in two columns divided by heavy black rule. Coffin at head of text. At end of text: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner Theatre Alley.