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

Five trade unionist poems

by Frederick Irons Bamford. Poetry and prose; first line of each poem with decorated initial block. Cover title; type ornament decoration centered above and below. Gives quotes on socialism by different authors on page [4] In lower margin press mark bearing legend: Typographia Oakland; superimposed on mark: Union Label No. 6.

Five trade unionist poems

by Frederick Irons Bamford. Poetry and prose; first line of each poem with decorated initial block. Cover title; type ornament decoration centered above and below. Gives quotes on socialism by different authors on page [4] In lower margin press mark bearing legend: Typographia Oakland; superimposed on mark: Union Label No. 6.

Five thousand poems

Five thousand poems

Brown University

Photostat of article which appeared in the Critic, vol. 10, 1887 (Jan.-June)

Five thousand poems

Five thousand poems

Brown University

Photostat of article which appeared in the Critic, vol. 10, 1887 (Jan.-June)

Five thousand poems

Five thousand poems

Brown University

Photostat of article which appeared in the Critic, vol. 10, 1887 (Jan.-June)

Five theological cradle-songs

Peter Viereck. Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. Caption title. Author's name at end. An offprint from Poetry, v. 71, no. 3, December, 1947.

Fission

Fission

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. At end of text: Christmas 1945.

Fisk University

Fisk University

Brown University

Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end: Mrs. Elizabeth Spence. Suggested publication date from ms. presentation date on Brown University copy.

Fishing for snakes

Fishing for snakes

Brown University

Richard Eberhart. Title from first line. At end of text: This first printing has been issued by the Adams & Lowell Printers, in Harvard Yard. Drawing by Laurence Scott, March 1965. White paper printed and illustrated in black.

Fishing for coal

Fishing for coal

Brown University

Printed on card stock. Advertisement for Hunt's Coal. Contains poetry. Colored illustration of seated man fishing in pail. Title from first line.

First Sunday after Christmas: December 29, 1968

Printed in red, yellow and black on white paper. Pages [1] and [4] printed; reproduced typescript on pages [2]-[3] Monograms on page [1] surrounded by cover title; drawing of holly and town on page [3] Program lists Bible lessons and gives words of offertory hymn; essay on page [4] entitled: The fulness of time.

First sonnet from Renascence and other poems- -1917

At end of text: The first separate edition of this sonnet was set by hand in 14-point Lutetia type at The New School. Five copies have been printed on the hand press, and the type distributed J.S. Van E. K[ohn] October 31st, 1935.

First poem

First poem

Brown University

Olive Moore. Page [2] blank. Poem in two three-line stanzas.

First iron-clad fight in the world: Monitor and Merrimac

Songsheet with text of seven songs; without music. At end of page [1]: James Mayberry, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Army, Navy, Corps and Post badges, No. 12 Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia. War song sheet, price 5 cents.