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.
text, Jonathan Williams ; design, A. Doyle Moore. Broadsheet. On recto illustration of graveyard with two dominant headstones; drawn by A. Doyle Moore. The author's epitaphs are imprinted on the headstones. Title and colophon on verso.
Poetry. Type-signed at end: T.W. Parsons. "Written in memory of George A. Parker, died April 20, 1887"--BAL, v. 6, p. 571. Suggested publication date from date of death of subject of poem.
French folded Poems Contains 9 epigrams beginning with Clos Vougeot 1911 by C.D. Morley. (First line: Clad in full velvet, enters Clos Vougeot) Printed on outside of double leaf, unopened at top Published in an edition of 500 copies. One of a few copies to contain slip, printed in red: (Drinking cup)/Good/Cheer. cf. Lee, Alfred P. A bibliography of Christopher Morley
Walter de la Mare. French fold; printed on double pages. Line of type ornaments at head of title and cut of birds and plant below title. Colophon on page [4]: Selected by Lawrence Clark Powell. Printed by Andrew Horn & Saul Marks for friends and admirers of Frances Clarke Sayers, Rieber Hall UCLA 12 June 1965. First line: Child do you love the flower.
"To the immortal memory of the people's president, Abraham Lincoln, is mournfully dedicated this song by a soldier of the republic"--Cover Written & composed by Edmundus Scotus, R.Q.S.; arranged for the piano by George Zoeller "Before everything but the republic he chastely dropped his eyes. He was the marble lover of liberty--Les Misérables"--Cover
Page [4] blank. Poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates because author's notation on Brown University copy refers to her husband as dead (he died in 1923) and the item was acquired by Brown in 1941.