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.
By the children's friend. Poem, in five stanzas. Printed area: 20.9 x 11 cm. At head of text: Air--"Marching along". At end of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by R. Thayer, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Text within decorative border.
By F.D. To be sung to the tune: We love to sing together. Text of children's hymn in six numbered four-line stanzas with varied chorus. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in gold on glossy white card stock. On recto uncaptioned colored lithograph of three children playing indoors pasted onto card within gilt ornamental border. On verso poem in four four-line stanzas Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Broadsheet printed in gold on glossy white card stock On recto uncaptioned colored lithograph of three children playing indoors pasted onto card within gilt ornamental border.. On verso poem in four four-line stanzas. Title from first line.
Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.
Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.
Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.
Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.
Printed in one and two columns divided by single line. At head of text: At the recent reunion of the Old Settlers' Union of Peoria and vicinity, a poem was read entitled "Remembrances of Childhood," which was written by A.M. Laughlin, and had been read by him at an old settlers' union at Atlanta, Ill.... Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. At end of text: It is but right to acknowledge that I am indebted for some of the above thoughts and language, to a Mrs. Snow, who wrote long ago a short poem entitled "The Old Kitchen Floor."--A.N. [i.e. M.?] L. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in blue. At head of text: (To Esther B. La Starr) Re-issued as printed in Chromatones, vol. 7, no. 4, October 1952, (editor and publisher Lyra Lu Vaile)
Concerning the mummy exhibited at "Gunther's New Confectionery" at 212 State St., Chicago, a wholesale candy factory and retail store incorporating a private museum, established by Charles Frederick Gunther in 1886; a wood engraving of the mummy case (as of 2004 in the Field Museum, Chicago) is printed above the title. Includes two poems, p. [4]: "The mummy of Sesostris. With M. Maspero in the Boulak Museum, Cairo, June 1, 1886", by H.D. Raunsley (first line: Among his perfumed wrappings Ram'ses lay); and "Address to a mummy of Thebes", by Horace Smith (first line: And thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story)). Conjectural date based on Gunther's confectionery being "new". Printed in two columns.
Printed in one and two columns divided by single lines within double-line border. Subtitle continues: Of the Twelve temptations or, The lost soul. Title from first lines. Playbill for production opening Nov. 24, 1873, with music and dance; includes cast of characters and synopsis.
Poetry without music in three numbered four-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Cheer! brothers, cheer! for we are coming. Type-signed at end of text: Geo. H. Barnes. To be sung to the tune: Tramp, tramp, tramp.
by Mary Earl. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Good-bye, Ma! Good-bye Pa! Good-bye, mule" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a woman saying goodbye to her son / Barbelle.
lyric by Will J. Hart ; music by Edw. G. Nelson. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: smiling soldiers / EE Walton.
words and music by Tod Weinhold. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: The Jersey City Police Quartet. "Respectfully dedicated to my brother Harold 'Over There'." Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Arlington, E.W. Closterman, James McDevitt, Tod Weinhold, Chas. Ross.