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.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz ; music by Geo. W. Meyer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Belle Brooks. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of U.S. transport ships / [rose symbol]; photograph of Belle Brooks. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
1 broadsheet. On verso: list of penny ballads and advertisements. Recto printed in six columns with words of 26 songs and advertisements for books and camera.
words by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier looking over a broken wall / Barbelle.
Page [4] blank. Page 3: Home at Christmas! What magic in those words .. Facsimile of the autograph manuscript of John Howard Payne's immortal ballad "Home, sweet home" formerly in the possession of Thomas F. Madigan.
enlarged and improved by R. Thayer. Revision of John Howard Payne's poem, with two verses added to make a total of five; cf. notes at head of text. At end of text: Price, one cent. Printed area: 17.3 x 9.3 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments.
Frenchfold; printed on double leaves. Illustrations in brown and black of country road on page [1], house on page [2], flowers on page [3] and music book on page [4]; signature "L.H. Risser" on page [2] Poem on page [3] type-signed at end: John Howard Payne (1791-1852) On verso: With our compliments and as an appreciation ... The Lowe Brothers Company Dayton, Ohio. Suggested publication date from advertising material acquired with Brown Unoversity copy.
Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text superimposed on colored ground bordered by flowers; at head of title illustration of house with woman, child and dog greeting man. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: Home, home, sweet, sweet home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Silk ribbon, with woven design and lettering in red, black and gold; lower edges folded back to form pointed end with red tassel. At head of title woven illustration of house and yard; at lower left vignette of man sitting on stone. Music and words of first stanza and chorus, then words alone of next stanza and chorus. At end of text: 200th anniversary 1712-1912.
Broadsheet. Metamorphic advertising card. When folded, colored illustration of thin, unhappy family above first poem; when unfolded, illustration shows family plump and smiling above second poem. On verso advertisement for Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, a laxative. Date from internal evidence.
Poetry. Printed area measures: 24.1 x 18.9 cm. Printed in two columns; wood-engraving of farm scene at left of title. Internal evidence, e.g. type and unique spacing, strongly suggest Joseph White as printer. He printed in Boston, first in partnership, then alone from 1788 to 1809; in Charlestown, Mass., from 1810 to 1826. Contents suggest imprint date approximation. Ninety-eight lines of verse based on David Humphreys' A poem on industry; first line: Sages conven'd from delegating states. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Shaw/Shoemaker, Am. Imprints, or Ford.
At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of man in woman's clothing using washboard and tub. Four-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.