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.
"Order of exercises" (p. [2]-[3]) also serves as a program for Washington's Birthday. Page [4] blank. Title and text printed within triple line ornamental border. Participants in the exercises included the Reverends T.T. Filmer, L.R. Eastman, Jr., H.G. Spaulding and Charles Jones.
Within double-line border on all pages. Caption title. Program of exercises at the Centennial celebration Sept. 17, 1887. Includes advertisement for store of Julius Sichel selling millinery, white goods and dress trimmings. Includes three new stanzas, beginning: Look our ransomed shores around, with chorus beginning: While the stars of heaven shall burn.
Within ornamental border; verses printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. At end of text, within lower border: 's Press. Ticket for the collation with embossed pictorial border, in green, included. (7 x 10 cm.)
Within ornamental border; verses printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. At end of text, within lower border: 's Press. Ticket for the collation with embossed pictorial border, in green, included. (7 x 10 cm.)
Within ornamental border; verses printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. At end of text, within lower border: 's Press. Ticket for the collation with embossed pictorial border, in green, included. (7 x 10 cm.)
Within ornamental border; verses printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. At end of text, within lower border: 's Press. Ticket for the collation with embossed pictorial border, in green, included. (7 x 10 cm.)
Within ornamental border on page [1], single-line border on pages [2]-[3] and quadruple-line border on page [4] At left and bottom of page [1] illustration of reeds, dragonfly and birds.
At head of title: (Not printed at Government expense). Congressional Record: Proceeding and debates of the 80th Congress, First Session. At end of text: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1947.
Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas; disjointed contents tell of murder and imprisonment. Text printed within border of type ornaments; alternating type size towards end of text. Printer could be Joseph K. Barr, who is known to have printed in New York between 1824 and 1842. Type and appearance of broadside suggest the probable range of dates.
Poetry in 14 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by rule Within ornamental border At end of text: Jennie Fry, aged eighty years; resident of Niagara City, N.Y Within border above title with double rule as divider, two photos of Niagara Falls
Poetry in eight four line stanzas printed in black within rule border; each stanza closes with "Sapolio." Type-signed at end: Bret Harte. According to Blanck (BAL 7293) first printing for "Enoch Morgan's Sons Co., manufacturers of Sapolio, by Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, N.Y., 1877.
Broadsheet printed in eight columns on recto and seven on verso, divided by single lines. Wood-engravings include seated blackface minstrel playing banjo at left of title on recto, similar minstrel playing bones at right of title, and ornamental chains and watches in advertisements on verso. At head of text on recto: 75 comic and sentimental songs as sung by Gus. Williams, Joe. Emmet, Tony Pastor, W.J. Scanlon, and others. 120 recipes! household and manufacturing. Includes text of popular songs, chiefly on recto, and on verso directions for magic tricks, letter writing, household remedies, temperance drinks, etc. with advertisements for books and jewelry. Suggested publication date from latest song copyright date mentioned.
Broadsheet printed in eight columns on recto and seven on verso, divided by single lines. Wood-engravings include seated blackface minstrel playing banjo at left of title on recto, similar minstrel playing bones at right of title, and ornamental chains and watches in advertisements on verso. At head of text on recto: 75 comic and sentimental songs as sung by Gus. Williams, Joe. Emmet, Tony Pastor, W.J. Scanlon, and others. 120 recipes! household and manufacturing. Includes text of popular songs, chiefly on recto, and on verso directions for magic tricks, letter writing, household remedies, temperance drinks, etc. with advertisements for books and jewelry. Suggested publication date from latest song copyright date mentioned.