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

Continuations, section VI

Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy. Broadsheet printed on gray paper folded to create [8] pages. Cover title. Collaborative poetry in 30 six-line stanzas. Back page contains colophon, biographical and series information, and variation of Aldine printer's mark. "An edition of 750 copies."

Contentment, or, The blind eirl's solace

Composed by Miss Matilda Nelson, at the age of 14 years. Poem, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines each; an appeal for charity. Identical, except for minor differences, with a poem entitled "The blind woman's appeal" (version with similar first line), attributed to Nancy J. Smith. Printed area: 23.3 x 9.8 cm. Printed within ornamental border.

Constantia

Constantia

Brown University

Poetry printed on blue card stock. At head of text: From Daily Mirror and American [Manchester, N.H.] At end of text: *Hon. E.C. Stimson, Denver Col. The Den, June 13th, 1913. John Foster.

Constantia

Constantia

Brown University

Poetry printed on blue card stock. At head of text: From Daily Mirror and American [Manchester, N.H.] At end of text: *Hon. E.C. Stimson, Denver Col. The Den, June 13th, 1913. John Foster.

Constantia

Constantia

Brown University

Poetry printed on blue card stock. At head of text: From Daily Mirror and American [Manchester, N.H.] At end of text: *Hon. E.C. Stimson, Denver Col. The Den, June 13th, 1913. John Foster.

Constancy: (Mark 34:8 as commonly paraphrased)

Wallace Havelock Robb. Broadsheet printed on heavy lavender paper within single-line border on each side. Poem on recto, prose statement on verso, headed: Born May 19th, 1888.

Consolation

Consolation

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: Unknown.

Consolation

Consolation

Brown University

Printed in purple and gold on heavy embossed white paper in postcard format. Above and at sides illustrations of lilies-of-the-valley. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Consecration prayer: for the Royal, True, Blues

Vignette of spray of leaves at bottom. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Typesigned at end: Fidella Estabrook. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy acquired.

Consecration prayer: for the Royal, True, Blues

Vignette of spray of leaves at bottom. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Typesigned at end: Fidella Estabrook. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy acquired.

Consecration prayer: for the Royal, True, Blues

Vignette of spray of leaves at bottom. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Typesigned at end: Fidella Estabrook. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy acquired.

Consecration hymn

Consecration hymn

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: Written on the occasion of the first consecration service of the Church organized in the Universalist Parish, Westminster, Mass., Feb. 7th, 1869.

Conscript song

Conscript song

Brown University

"Sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, importer, wholesale and retail dealer in fancy goods, toys, watches, jewelry, Yankee notions, &c., no. 27 Hanover Street ... Boston" Song in four verses with chorus

Connecticut free-will offering hymn

by Mrs. M.M. Andrews. Hymn, in 3 stanzas. At head of text: Tune--Coronation. Printed area: 10.9 x 8 cm. At head of title of second hymn: Qui transtulit sustinet. (Motto of Conn. State Seal)

Confirmations-Lied

Confirmations-Lied

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 15.9 x 13.9 cm. To be sung to the tune: Wo ist Jesus mein Verlangen? Text of hymn in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Includes Confirmations-Schein, below double rule, a certificate of confirmation in the "evangelisch-reformierte Kirche" with blank spaces left for the confirmand's name and date, after "ein Tausend acht hundert und." Place of publication and suggested date from dealer.

Confirmations Lied

Confirmations Lied

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double line within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 19.7 x 15.5 cm. Text of hymn in 10 numbered seven-line stanzas. At end of text within borders: Gedruckt bei Johan Bär. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Confirmation

Confirmation

Brown University

Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed in black; title in blue. Colophon on page [4]: This poem is for Christopher Davenport .... Michael Peich printed 150 copies. First line: How is it that an old devotion calls.

Confirmation

Confirmation

Brown University

Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed in black; title in blue. Colophon on page [4]: This poem is for Christopher Davenport .... Michael Peich printed 150 copies. First line: How is it that an old devotion calls.

Confirmation

Confirmation

Brown University

Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed in black; title in blue. Colophon on page [4]: This poem is for Christopher Davenport .... Michael Peich printed 150 copies. First line: How is it that an old devotion calls.

Confederate memorial

Confederate memorial

Brown University

Within double line border; printed on yellow paper. At end of text: The above inscription was written on the back of a $10.00 Confederate note ..

Confederate memorial

Confederate memorial

Brown University

Within double line border; printed on yellow paper. At end of text: The above inscription was written on the back of a $10.00 Confederate note ..

Confederate memorial

Confederate memorial

Brown University

Within double line border; printed on yellow paper. At end of text: The above inscription was written on the back of a $10.00 Confederate note ..

Concrete dream CCXV

Concrete dream CCXV

Brown University

Medium blue paper printed in black; verso printed as a postcard. Poem in twelve lines. Type-signed at end: Guy R. Beining.