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.
Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.
Two-page spread, illustration after p. 18 of "Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle..." (1719); night scene of fireworks display and artificial trees outside the town hall in Ghent. Two-page spread, illustration after p. 18 of "Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle..." (1719); night scene of fireworks display and artificial trees outside the town hall in Ghent.
Printed on silk ribbon. Brown University copy mutilated with full title and original dimensions unknown. At head of title cut of eagle with spread wings holding shield, arrows, olive branch and scroll inscribed: E pluribus unum; at center ball inscribed: Temperance and slogan: Roll on the temperance ball! Includes text of temperance song and beginning of another. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Traces of word above title suggest "Massachusetts"
words by Roger Lewis ; music by Jimmie V. Monaco. Caption title. Advertisement for songbook "Songs the soldiers and sailors sing": p. [6] Cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.
written by Charles Jefferys; co[m]posed by Stephen Glover For voice and piano Lithographed t.p.: Eva and Topsy seated and holding hands, with red and white roses; Corbaux del et lith.; Stannard & Dixon Imp. Advertisement for Jefferys edition of songs from "Uncle Tom's cabin," written and composed by Charles Jefferys and Stephen Glover: p. [8]
words by Al. Trahern; music by Warner Crosby For voice and piano Cover title "The Sunday World music album, supplement to the New York World, Sunday, Dec. 17, 1899" Cover illustration: drawing of a woman / Franck Parker
Printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines within curvilinear border with ornamental corners. Poem in 27 four-line stanzas. At end of text: Bolton, England, Oct. 19th, 1852.
Text printed in two columns divided by double lines containing advertising with type ornaments (four-petaled flowers) at each end. Line of advertising between columns: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Deming used this address from 1832 to 1836.
Patricia Olson. Printed in red, gray and black on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto uncaptioned image of woman. On verso: Patricia Olson. Tooth Mother screenprint, 1977, 20" x 28". "CIE postcard"--Verso.
Pages [1,4] blank. "Too young" on page [2] and "Too old" on page [3]. No collective title; title from the caption titles of the two poems, each of which is signed, in print, at end by the author.
1 broadsheet. Issued in postcard format. Caption title. On verso: House of Representatives U.S. - Part of Cong. Record - Free. followed by table of contents within double rule border.
Cover title; cut of man's face and hands extends over pages [1,4]; hand on page [2]; poem on page [3] Acquired from Canadian dealer William Hoffer with broadsides mostly dating from the 1970's and 1990's.
as sung by him in New York & Boston with great applause. For voice and piano. Caption title: Tony Pastor's combination song. Words by John F. Poole. Verses 4-5 printed without accompaniment on p. 5.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.
Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of a boy wearing kilt stealing pig and eating fritters, and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustration of man selling buns, two children, and Ko-nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated container. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.
words by Howard Johnson ; music by Milton Ager. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Bailey and Cowan; drawing of four men from various military services / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Cover illustration: cop. 2, photograph of Claire Rochester; cop. 3, photograph of the Watson Sisters; cop. 4, photograph of Jack Connors, Jr.
words by Howard Johnson ; music by Milton Ager. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Bailey and Cowan; drawing of four men from various military services / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Cover illustration: cop. 2, photograph of Claire Rochester; cop. 3, photograph of the Watson Sisters; cop. 4, photograph of Jack Connors, Jr.
words by Howard Johnson ; music by Milton Ager. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Bailey and Cowan; drawing of four men from various military services / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Cover illustration: cop. 2, photograph of Claire Rochester; cop. 3, photograph of the Watson Sisters; cop. 4, photograph of Jack Connors, Jr.
words by Howard Johnson ; music by Milton Ager. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Bailey and Cowan; drawing of four men from various military services / Henry Hutt. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette. Cover illustration: cop. 2, photograph of Claire Rochester; cop. 3, photograph of the Watson Sisters; cop. 4, photograph of Jack Connors, Jr.
Broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Bingen on the Rhine. Within double-line border. At head of title cut of soldier between two American flags. At end of text: Price ten cents. David D. Gilson. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas about Civil War disabled veterans' home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because inmates of home are described as elderly.
1 broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Bingen on the Rhine. Within double-line border. In left margin within border cut of banded column; at left of title cut of soldier. At end of text: Price ten cents. David D. Gilson. John H. Turner, Printer, Ayer, Mass. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas about disabled Civil War veterans' home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because inmates of home are described as elderly.
