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.
Poetry. Printed in two columns. At end of text between double rules: Price, Three Cents. Poem in 16 numbered stanzas praises Senate vote in 1811 not to renew charter of the Bank of the United States. First line: Sweet Liberty may well inspire.
by John Robert Colombo. Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages; one page blank; text of poem extends across two pages. Printed in red and black. Illustration of red flames at left of poem; printer's mark of hawk's head on last page. Cover title. At end of poem: Set in Bembo & printed at the Hawkshead Press 78A Dale Avenue Toronto 5 Canada MCMLC.
words and music by Lew Fritz ;[arr. by Elkanah H. Keighley] March for voice and piano. Cover title. Sung by: Frankie Heath. Cover illustration: photograph of Frankie Heath; border design / ES Fisher.
lyrics by Robert B. Smith ; music by Harold Orlob. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Ned Wayburn's Town Topics. Advertisement for other songs from "Town topics": p. [6] Cover illustration: a chorus line / H.R.S.
words by Jeff Branen ; music by Arthur Lange. For voice and piano. Caption title. As featured by Neil O'brien's Minstrels in the revue, Neil O'Brien's Minstrels 1916-1917. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a ship.
At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.
At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.
At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.
At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.
Words of song, without music, in four stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Germanae Band, be faithful, true. At end of text: November, 1857. Some phrases, such as "We'll conquer Science, Art, and seek their mysteries to unfold," seem to refer to schoolwork; "Germanae" is a Latin word meaning "Sisters" and apparently refers here to female students.
Page [4] blank. Poetry printed in green on white. Cover title. Below title on page [1] letter C in green within green holly wreath with red berries. At end of first poem: Negro spiritual, traditional; at end of second poem: Carmen Americanum priscum traductum ab H.N.C., MCMLVIII.
Page [4] blank. Poetry printed in green on white. Cover title. Below title on page [1] cut of green holly sprig with red berries. At end of first poem: Old English carol, traditional; at end of second poem: Hoc carmen ab Eunicis duabus traductum Herberto die natali, mcmlvii, donum dedicandum datum est.
Broadsheet printed in green on cream pasper. Border of leaves and flowers in green on recto on left and right and across top. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: May Riley Smith. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in green on cream pasper. Border of leaves and flowers in green on recto on left and right and across top. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: May Riley Smith. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.