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

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Journeying onward

Journeying onward

Brown University

Printed on heavy cream paper. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nellie B. Mace. Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor. Publication date suggested because Brown University copy found in Nellie B. Mace's Bringer of peace and other poems published in 1940.

Journeyed, once, we did to Saveh

Printed in red on heavy white paper in two columns. Title from first line. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Diana and Chesley Worthington. Suggested place and date of publication because Brown University copy was donated by author, a Providence resident, in Dec. 1977.

Joseph und seine Brüder

Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in eight numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Jordan is a hard road to travel

composed by Old Dan Emmet For voice and piano Caption title Price given as 25 cents net in lower right corner of cover Cover illustration: engraving of the face of a minstrel / Greene The number 2-1/2 in a star in lower right corner of cover: cop. 2

Jordan

Jordan

Brown University

At end of text: O.G.H.

Jonathan's courtship

Jonathan's courtship

Brown University

Satirical poem relating the tale of rustic "Jonathan Jolthead's" courtship of "Sally Snapper," the deacon's daughter. Satirical poem relating the tale of rustic "Jonathan Jolthead's" courtship of "Sally Snapper," the deacon's daughter. Printed area measures: 23.7 x 14.6 cm. Caption title. Poetry in 112 lines printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. This humorous poem was originally written in 1795 by T.G. Fessenden while a student at Dartmouth College (cf. P.G. Perrins"s "Life and works of Thomas Green Fessenden", in: The Maine Bulletin, vol. 28, no. 7, January, 1926, p. 33ff. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. type and type setting; possibly a Boston imprint. This edition not in Ford, or Shaw & Shoemaker.

Jonathan to John

Jonathan to John

Brown University

words by Hosea Bigelow ; music composed by F. Boott. Black and white lithograph of Uncle Sam and John Bull facing each other across boundary. Lithograph by L. Prang & Co. Verses 2-5 printed as text on p. [5]

Jolly Irishmen

Jolly Irishmen

Brown University

Song describes fight at wedding celebration. Song describes fight at wedding celebration. Written and sung by Wm. Carlton with great success at Tony Pastor's Opera House, N.Y. Within double-line border with ornamental corners. At head of title: No. 1043. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: We had a row the other night, we put the women in a fright. Colophon at end: Published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, importer, wholesale and retail dealer in fancy goods, toys, watches, jewelry, Yankee notions, beads, stationery, etc., No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston. Not in Wolf's American song sheets. Partridge used this address between 1860 and 1870.

Jolly butcher

Jolly butcher

Brown University

L. Deming was listed at the above address between 1837 and 1840. First line: Of all the merry frolicks that lately have been done.

Jolly butcher

Jolly butcher

Brown University

L. Deming was listed at the above address between 1837 and 1840. First line: Of all the merry frolicks that lately have been done.