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

Ellsworth's avengers!

Ellsworth's avengers!

Brown University

By A.L. Hudson. Poetry without music in five eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Strike, freemen, for the Union. Printed area measures: 21.3 x 12.9 cm. Text within pictorial border (F in Wolf: Wrigley military cupid border) To be sung to the tune: Annie Lisle. Colophon below border: J. Wrigley, Publisher of songs, ballad's and toy books, valentines, &c. No. 27 Chatham Street, New York. Date suggested by internal evidence. Entered under title rather than author. This edition not in E. Wolf's Amer. song sheets.

Ellsworth's avengers

Ellsworth's avengers

Brown University

Poetry without music in five eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Strike, freemen, for the Union. Text within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Annie Lisle. Colophon above upper border: A. W. Auner, Song Publisher, N.E. cor. 11th & Market Sts., Philada.; another with slightly differing wording below border in lower margin. A.W. Auner is listed at above address between 1865 and 1870. Entered under title rather than author.

Ellsworth's avengers

Ellsworth's avengers

Brown University

Poetry without music in five eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Strike, freemen, for the Union. Text within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Annie Lisle. Colophon above upper border: A. W. Auner, Song Publisher, N.E. cor. 11th & Market Sts., Philada.; another with slightly differing wording below border in lower margin. A.W. Auner is listed at above address between 1865 and 1870. Entered under title rather than author.

Ellsworth avengers

Ellsworth avengers

Brown University

Poetry without music in five eight-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Strike, freemen, for the Union. Text within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Annie Lisle. Colophon above upper border: Auner, Stationer and Printer, 45 N. 9th St., Philadelphia, Pa; another with slightly differing wording below border in lower margin. A.W. Auner is listed at above address in 1864. Ascribed to A.L. Hudson; entered under title rather than author.

Ellsworth avengers

Ellsworth avengers

Brown University

Poetry without music in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus, beginning: Strike, freemen, for the Union. Text within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Annie Lisle. Colophon below border in lower margin: Johnson, Song Publisher, Stationer & Printer, No. 7 N. Tenth St., 2 doors above Market, Phila. J.H. Johnson is listed at above address between 1858 and 1876. Date suggested by internal evidence. Ascribed to A.L. Hudson; entered under title rather than author. This edition not in E. Wolf's Amer. song sheets.

Ellsworth and his Zouaves

Poetry and prose At end of text below rule: American Temperance Union, No. 10 Park Bank, New York

Elisha at Dothan: 2 Kings 6:8-23

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include a sword and shield and a castle. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: 1. Oct. 4. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Elinor's mouth-hole

Elinor's mouth-hole

Brown University

Poetry. Pages [2] and [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of signed abstract painting by Colin Haworth. Type signed at end of poem on page [3]: R. G. Everson. Overstock from Unicorn Folio Series III, no. 1.

Elijah the Tishbite: 1 Kings 17:1-16

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include a raven feeding Elijah and a jar and keg. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: July 26. 4. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Elijah meeting Ahab: 1 Kings 18:1-1

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include a head of Baal. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: 5. Aug. 2. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Elijah at Horeb: 1 Kings 19:1-18.28

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Elijah praying, flowers and dishes. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: Aug. 23. 8. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Eleven o'clock

Eleven o'clock

Brown University

Printed in purple within single line border, divided by Gilded decorative column.

Elegy in a country barn-yard: suggested by a view of the inmates

Satirical poem about Dartmouth freshmen. Satirical poem about Dartmouth freshmen. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Mention of "Dartmouth" in last line indicates place of publication; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, including a reference to celluloid collars.