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.
Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Dandy Jim from Caroline. Printed in three columns within border of type ornaments; below title cut of four wine barrels with decanter at center. At end of text within border: Kendall's Rotery [i.e. Rotary] Press--No. 8, Park St., Boston. Publication date suggested because included in Wolf's bibliography of song sheets published between 1850 and 1870. Comic song in 31 stanzas and chorus, addressed by unsuccessful henpecked husband to scheming wife.
Pages [1] and [4] blank. Publicity for brands of flour includes letters dated Dec. 1, 1859, announcement of a prize contest, and a poem by a customer dated Nov. 24, 1859.
words by Jack Yellen; music by George L. Cobb For voice and piano Caption title Cover illustration: photograph of Elizabeth Murray; frame design Advertisement for "The wedding of the sunshine and the rose": cop. 2, p. [6]
Poetry. Printed in two columns. Stamped in lower margin: R. Astley, 77 Purchase St. New Bedford, dealer in magazines, newspapers, and songs. At head of text of first song: Banjo melody, as sung by the famed Virginia Minstrels. Sheet music entitled Alabama Joe, with same first line and first line of chorus, published in Boston in 1840 Publication date suggested because the Virginia Minstrels formed troupe in 1843 and disbanded in 1844--E. L. Rice, Monarchs of minstrelsy, New York, 1911 p. 11-12. Second song ascribed to Dorothy Jordan by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258. First line of chorus of Alabama Joe:.
Printed on green paper. Song in two eight-line stanzas with nine-line chorus. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence; Nellie Richards appeared on New York stage in 1870s and 1880s.
Printed in blue, green and black on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title illustration of pair of peacocks. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of poem: C.J.B. Author's full name not on item.
Printed in blue, green and black on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title illustration of pair of peacocks. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of poem: C.J.B. Author's full name not on item.
by James Brachman For voice and piano Caption title Advertisement for another song: p. [2] Cover illustration: photograph of Charles Dickson; floral border design / HC
Printed in brown, gray and tan on heavy paper in postcard format. Within ornamental colored border. Poem type-signed: C.J.B. "From the writings of Carrie Jacobs-Bond"--Verso.
Printed in brown, gray and tan on heavy paper in postcard format. Within ornamental colored border. Poem type-signed: C.J.B. "From the writings of Carrie Jacobs-Bond"--Verso.
Printed in brown, gray and tan on heavy paper in postcard format. Within ornamental colored border. Poem type-signed: C.J.B. "From the writings of Carrie Jacobs-Bond"--Verso.
Printed on glossy white card stock. Title from first line. Poem in nine lines. Author's name from ms. signature, "Clementine," a recognized pseudonym, on Brown University copy; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of author's death.
Pages [2]-[3] blank; colophon on page [4] Poetry. Text on page [1] within wide frame of night sky with stars; gold stars in margin. Title from first line; publisher's catalog gives title as: The law of the stars. Type-signed at end of text: Rainer Maria Rilke. "Translation by Stephen Mitchell." From: The Enlightened heart : an anthology of sacred poetry / edited by Stephen Mitchell.
Processed copy. On pink paper. Poem in two stanzas. Date from author's inscription on Brown Univ. copy. Possibly published in New Mexico where author was born.
Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. Poem in two stanzas of five lines each and one of four. Type-signed at end: Philip Lamantia. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.
Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. Poem in two stanzas of five lines each and one of four. Type-signed at end: Philip Lamantia. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.
Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. Poem in two stanzas of five lines each and one of four. Type-signed at end: Philip Lamantia. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.
