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

Immersion hydrothérapique

Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, in verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimposed on colored lithograph of boy pouring water from watering can on another boy. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso poem in two six-line stanzas advertising Sollers shoes, beginning: All tender young plants. Title on recto in French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Immanuel

Immanuel

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. At head of text: God with us. At end of text: The Ministers Elm Park Church Christmas 1930.

Image of Albion sunlight: a poem

by Richard Mathews. Page [2] blank. Printed on ivory paper vertically folded. Poem in three three-line stanzas on page [3] Colophon on page [4]: This sheet was printed on an Albion once used at the Kelmscott Press. The title, decorations, and colophon were handset in Janson types originally designed by Nicholas Kis & the poem text in Eric Gill's Perpetua. Printed in an edition of 150 copies, January, 1975, at Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, by kind permission of the William Morris Society. Konglomerati Press ....

Illustration of the Rumseller's just doom and final exit

Prints Latin quote with English translation, engraving and poem; all damning sellers of alcoholic beverages. Prints Latin quote with English translation, engraving and poem; all damning sellers of alcoholic beverages. Caption title. Text printed in black in one and two columns. Between text engraving of rumseller decending into hell, captioned: Engraved by a celebrated London artist. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. subject matter and clothing.

Illinois: (Uncle Sam is calling you)

words by Morris S. Silver ; music by Jimmie Henshel. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photographs of Morris S. Silver and Jimmie Henshel; drawing of Uncle Sam with a soldier and a sailor / Gullen, 1916.

Il giovane guerriero

Il giovane guerriero

Brown University

At end of text: Edoardo Petri. (Copyright, 1915, by G. Ricordi & Co., Inc.) Text in Italian.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

If---for girls

If---for girls

Brown University

Printed in redand green within ornamental border on heavy paper. Poem in four eight-line stanzas imitating Kipling's If. In lower margin, below border: Copyright 1914.

If you'll be a soldier I'll be a Red Cross nurse: song

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: What next? Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 6] Cover illustration: woman soldier powdering nose / L.J. Mayer, c. Puck.

If you will wed me, maiden fair

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. At head of title on recto colored illustration of young man on knees proposing to girl. Title from first line. Advertising card for Ward's Tip-Top bread and cakes. On recto four-line poem; on verso, within single-line border, information about cakes, beginning: Every good housewife.

If you might choose a gift, and only one

Page [4] blank. Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper; text in red and gold. On page [1] hand-colored illustration of children in sleigh driven by Santa Claus; on page [3] illustration of Christmas tree. Title from first line of poem on page [2] Typesigned at end of poem: Sherman Foster Johnson, 1949. "The illustration overleaf is from St. Nicholas Magazine, c. 1896." "Vera & Foster Johnson send you this little poem ...." Printed at Bayberry Hill Press.

If you had let me alone, I would have let you alone

A soldier of '76. At head of text: A reply to the dastardly, fulminating, prevaricating Poltroons, who wrote and published a nefarious song .. At end of text: A soldier of seventy-six Vid. Peter Thorp.

If you fight for your country: like you fought at home

words and music by Harry De Costa. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung with great success by: Adele Rowland. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-[4] War slogans: p. 2-3. Cover illustration: photograph of Adele Rowland / Apeda, N.Y.; cover design / Starmer.