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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in ten four-line verses with four-line chorus beginning: O! the spring flowers fade and the summer leaves go. Author's name not on item.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in ten four-line verses with four-line chorus beginning: O! the spring flowers fade and the summer leaves go. Author's name not on item.
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
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.
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]
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.