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.
Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of young couple on sofa holding hands; on verso cut of plate of biscuits in green. Title from first line. Advertising card for Cottolene, a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef suet used in cooking. On recto four-line poem about Cottolene; on verso testimonials. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing.
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. Printed on glossy white paper. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of building at Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in 17 three-line stanzas and a final four-line one.
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. Printed on glossy white paper. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of building at Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in 17 three-line stanzas and a final four-line one.
by Watson Kirkconnell. Page [4] blank. Printed on glossy white paper. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of building at Acadia University. Caption title. Poem in 17 three-line stanzas and a final four-line one.
Printed in gold and colors within gold border on heavy paper in postcard format; text within inner gold border. At left between inner and outer borders illustration of fruit on high gold stand wreathed in ivy and laurel; band of cornucopias and flowers between borders at top and bottom; vine at right. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of passage: Henry Van Dyke. In lower margin: Taken by permission from "The spirit of Christmas." 1905 - Charles Scribner's Sons. "No. 245W. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Poetry. Page [4] blank; cut of tree on page [1], photograph of author and facsimile signature on page [3] Issued unfolded: 14 x 21 cm. At end of poems: Ralph Hodgson. On page [3]: In memory Ralph Hodgson Born--September 9, 1871. Died--November 3, 1962. But his soul goes marching on. Imprint information from dealer, with reference "Sweetser D3." Published on the occasion of the poet's funeral; includes part or all of three of his poems. First line: "But thou are Death?" "Of Heavenly Seraphim.
By J. H. Smith, Co. "K," 28th Iowa Vols. Poetry. Poem in thirteen eight-line stanzas printed on blue lined paper describes fighting under Sheridan in autumn 1864. First line: Shenandoah's fertile valley.
words by J.B. Murphy; music by D. Braham For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: Harry Bloodgood, the popular song and dance man Cover illustration: Afro-American man in top hat and tails Library's copy inscribed: Dean Pierce '78
Printed in two columns divided by single line; type ornaments below title and between songs. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence; the first song, about Adams, refers to his presidency. Second song attributed to G. Colman 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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.1 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/)
