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.
Printed in gold and colors on heavy white embossed paper in postcard format; rubricated initials; text on verso in brown. At head of title framed illustration of landscape with house; below, a butterfly. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end: Mc Kown. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments at sides and bottom. Original size not known. Title from first line. At end of text: January 1, 1830. A carrier's address which does not identify the name of the newspaper but does indicate that it is from "the city of Penn" (i.e. Philadelphia)
by Gen. W. H. Hayward, of Baltimore. To be sung to the tune: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. Within border of type ornaments. Title from first line of poem. In lower margin: Rose & Co. Prs. 5 So. Calvert St. Poem in 12 stanzas for meeting at Gettysburg beside Union graves. Date suggested because internal evidence shows poem written after end of Civil War and because author died in 1876.
words and music by Charles F. Manney. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Parts available for band and orchestra.
words and music by [sic] C. Arthur Pfeiffer. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. soldiers marching through Paris. Also published for band and orchestra.
Printed in reddish-brown and black on heavy paper. Title from first line. With rubricated initial. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman. At end of text: A Christmas greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1952.
words by Dean T. Wilton ; music by James McHugh. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "Most Respectfully Dedicated To Our Gallant Boys of the Army and Navy and to The Allies with whom we are United making us One For All and All for One!" Cover illustration: drawing of Uncle Sam holding American flag and American eagle / E.S. Fisher.
words by Arthur Macy ; music by G.W. Chadwick. March for mixed voices (SATB) and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to all American children who love their flag." Advertisement for an opera: p. [14]
Ibn Hazm. Poem. At head of title: Ibn Hazm. At end of text: Translated by Robert Bly. From 'The sea and the honeycomb' edited by Robert Bly, Beacon Press. Institute for the Study of Nonviolence Arab-Israeli study kit. Printed on blue paper. First line: The spirit came to the bed of the earnest lover.
Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. At end of text: Published by The French Relief Fund. The Indianapolis Branch of The American Fund for French Wounded.
Printed in brown and black on cream paper with deckled lower edge. Title from first lines. Prospectus for limited edition. Date from publication date of book.
Headshot of Henry F. (a.k.a. Monter Cristo, African American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (three-piece suit, bow tie); [place of photo unknown]; undated Headshot of Henry F. (a.k.a. Monter Cristo, African American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (three-piece suit, bow tie); [place of photo unknown]; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)