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.
observed by Stanley Carter. Printed in purple on glossy white paper within double-line border. At upper right illustration of open book; at lower left illustration of joined hands; at lower right a cross. Poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention of Civil War when Sprague was of military age.
Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poet tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within ornamental border. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Sold for my own benefit. Price 5 cents. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention of Civil War when Sprague was of military age.
Poem tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Poem tells of his gradual wasting away until his employment as Living Skeleton in sideshows. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border. Poem in 24 eight-line stanzas. At end of text below double rule: Sold for my own benefit. Price, 5 cents. Brown University copy pasted on same sheet with Memorial Day, Lonsdale, R.I. (HB25001) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and mention that Sprague was of military age in the Civil War.
Printed in gold and colors within green inner and gold outer borders on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial blocks; green horizontal rules between lines of text. Illustration of climbing rose plant with flowers at left between borders, climbing rose without flowers at right. Type-signed at end of poem: Henry Van Dyke. In lower margin: Taken by permission from "Music and other poems." 1904 - Charles Scribner's Sons. "No. 241W. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
P. Roth. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red, yellow, blue and black on heavy glossy white notepaper. On page [1] reproduction of colored serigraph signed: Sister Mary Corita, consisting of lettering, with "Life" in large blue letters. Title from first lines. Includes two short poems as part of illustration on page [1] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Henry Dennison [i.e. Denison] Printed on birch bark; ; irregular edges; initial block. Poem in 12 lines. At end of text: From The Columbian lyre, 1828. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.