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.
Three-quarter length image of Bisette, African American vaudeville performer (female): Right-side facing; in formal attire (floor-length dress with lace embellishments, and wide brim hat); Chicago, Illinois; circa 1911. Three-quarter length image of Bisette, African American vaudeville performer (female): Right-side facing; in formal attire (floor-length dress with lace embellishments, and wide brim hat); Chicago, Illinois; circa 1911. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
By Jabez C. Woodman. Within ornamental border with corner ornaments. Poem in 26 lines, with first initials of each line making an alphabet. At end of text: Portland, Me., Oct. 14th, 1882.
Printed in red, brown and black on tan paper within curvilinear brown border; rubricated initial. Title from first line. Eight-line poem type-signed: G.W. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Songs for Washington's Birthday, including pieces intended to promote temperance. Printed area: 24.5 x 22 cm. Printed in three columns divided by single vertical lines, within border of large type ornaments.
Poetry and prose. Printed in five columns separated by heavy lines within mourning border. At head of title wood-engraving of Fairbanks' execution; at left an urn captioned E. Fales, at right a coffin marked J.F. Subtitle continues: Also a concise and authentic description of the murder of Miss Fales. Fairbanks the murderer's behaviour at the time of his apprehension. His release from the goal [i.e. gaol] at Dedham, and his exit from time to eternity. Written by a gentleman, residing near Dedham, who has been well acquainted with the parties, and was formerly an inmate at the same school with Fairbanks. Pandamonium Press seems to be a made-up name.
lyric & music by Jack Mahoney and Allan Flynn. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "As Sung by Blanche Ring"--Cover. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Blanche Ring; cover design by Starmer.
Headshot of Billy Ward, African American performer (male): In blackface; in formal attire (light-colored jacket, vest, and tie); Little Falls, N.Y.; 1910. Headshot of Billy Ward, African American performer (male): In blackface; in formal attire (light-colored jacket, vest, and tie); Little Falls, N.Y.; 1910. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by double lines. Poem in 15 four-line stanzas about unhappy couple and the wife's lover. Date from internal evidence.
Poetry. Printed in two columns; single line at head and bottom of text. At end of text: Sold at 138 Division-street, and 257 Hudson-street. The addresses indicate Applegate as seller. Date from internal evidence.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; one poem in each column. At head of second column, two wood-engravings, one of two young men walking, the other of a young man in a sailboat. Printed area: 18 x 19.2 cm. Not in Evans, Shaw & Shoemaker, Sabin, Bristol or Ford.
words by Lester A. Walton ; music by C. Lucky Roberts. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Col. William Hayward. Cover illustration: photograph of a soldier [William Hayward?]
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Comic song in 24 four-line stanzas. At end of text: Printed and sold 134 Division-Street, N.Y. Elton printed at this address in 1833
Printed in two columns divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at beginning and end. At head of first column, below title, wood-engraving of ragged man holding paper headed: Loafer. Printed area measures: 20.3 x 14.5 cm. Text between columns: Sold, wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming, at the Sign of the Barber's Pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Poem in 22 five-line stanzas with refrain: O dear, raggeddy ho, is it not hard, &c. Poem mentions places in Boston but uses name of Billy Barlow, a Londoner who died in Whitechapel workhouse--cf. Reader's handbook, London, 1911, p. 120. Deming used this address from 1837 to 1840.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments very similar to Reilly 586 used between 1730s and 1770s. At left of title wood-engraving of man and woman. Date from appearance of item resembling work of Ezekiel Russell and from newspaper backing.
Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.
Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.
Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.
Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.
