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

February

February

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy paper; text on verso within single-line border with ornamental corners. On recto colored illustration of flowers captioned: Hyacinth, Van Thol tulip. On verso poem in four eight-line stanzas type-signed: Whittier. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Feats of muster day

Feats of muster day

Brown University

At head of text: The following appropriate lines were written in commemoration of that splendid encounter which took place at Dartmouth College, .. At end of text: Perseverance.

Fear: this white jelly frog

Title from first lines. Poetry; typesigned at end: Ellen Jarvis. Mimeographed typescript on white paper. At head of title in upper left: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September publication was continued until 1967 by Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free Poems among Friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]")

Father will be with us soon

words by H.H. Skerrett ; music by Ballare Macdonald and Nat. Osborne. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Atta boy, produced by the soldier boys of Q.M.C. Camp Meigs, Washington, D.C. Advertisement for other songs: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: two women with soldier / Barbelle.

Father Abbey's will. To which is added a letter of courtship, to his virtuous and amiable widow

Printed in three columns divided by lines of type ornaments. At head of text: Cambridge. December 1731. Some time since died here, Mr. Matthew Abbey, in a very advanced age .. Attributed to John Seccombe and John Hubbard cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII., 481-490. This edition not in Ford, Evans, Bristol. Imprint date approximation suggest by Lawrence C. Wroth. (See his letter of 11-8-37)

Father Abbey's will, to which is added, a letter of courtship to his virtuous and amiable wife

Printed in three columns divided by lines of advertisement: Sold wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming at the sign of the Barber's Pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Where may be found .. At head of text: Some time since, died here, Mr. Matthew Abbey, in a very advanced age .. Attributed to John Seccombe and John Hubbard, cf. JH. Langdon Sibley, VIII, pp. 481-490. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Father Abbey's will

Father Abbey's will

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Headband at head of title. At end of text beneath line of type ornaments: Printed and sold at No. 5 Middle-Street, Newburyport. John Gilman was listed at this address in 1807. This edition not in Ford, Evans, or Bristol. Attributed to John Seccombe, cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII, 481-490.

Father Abbey's will

Father Abbey's will

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At head of text three woodcuts (two genre scenes, with urn in center) Attributed to John Seccombe, cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII, 481-490.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Farmer's boy: and, The sea

Poetry printed in two columns, divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold, with a variety of other articles, by Hunts & Shaw, N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. Above address is listed for the firm in 1834. Cut of mother and son gardening at head of text in first column.

Farm Journal

Farm Journal

Brown University

Border of verses illustrated by vignettes of brownies doing farm work. Central panel urges subscription to journal edited and published by Wilmer Atkinson.

Farewell: (my loved ones)

words by Gladys G. Dennis ; music by Harry H. Williams. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Mrs. Wm. G. Dennis. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2] and [6 Cover illustration: photograph of an unidentified man [Harry Williams?]; border design.

Farewell: (my loved ones)

words by Gladys G. Dennis ; music by Harry H. Williams. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Mrs. Wm. G. Dennis. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2] and [6 Cover illustration: drawing of soldier bidding farewell / Acme Eng. Co., Muskogee.