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.
Printed in two columns, divided by double line. Headband of type ornaments (leafy scroll) dividing title and text. At head of text: Addressed to the public in general and his friends in particular.
by Ambrose Bierce. French fold; printed on double page. On page [4]: Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio in 1842 .. At head of text: Read at the celebration of Independence Day, San Francisco, 1888. Date from internal evidence; must be between date of Bierce's death mentioned on page [4] and date noted in ms. on item.
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poetry; printed in green and red on green paper below Saturday Review letterhead. Printed on illustrated self mailer patented by The Sawdon Co., Inc. with return address, postage paid, and typed address on verso. At end of text: William Rose Benet.
invenit & sculpsit Kitzi Pantzer. Page [2] blank. At head of title illustration of cartoon figure holding large letter "M" between flowers. Poem in four lines, with footnotes. "STC" probably refers to A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, of the second edition of which Pantzer was an editor.
Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided first by curvilinear and then single line. Prose piece is testimonial to William C. Brown's temperance poem "Ode to Rum" and urges temperance editors to publish ode at least once a year. A later ed. (Boston?, 1851?) is recorded as NUC pre-1956 NB 0867658.
Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.
Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.
Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in dark green on green paper. On cover uncaptioned abstract illustration. Caption title. At end of poem on page [3]: Christmas greetings 1965. In intaglio on page [3]: Percival R. Roberts, III, poet laureate State of Delaware.
Printed in blue on heavy gray paper within border of type ornament sections. Imitation of Kipling'd If in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Mary R. Shepard, R.N. Worcester, 1919.
Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in brown on cream paper in two columns divided by single lines. Type-signed at end: By Florence V. R. French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within double line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: These homely rhymes relate to A.O.B., / Faint tribute to his worth, from S.P.T. At end of text: S.P.T.