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.
Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Broadside printed in dark blue and red on heavy white paper. On verso view of harbor in red, captioned in blue: Compliments of A.R. Nickerson, Boothbay Harbor, Me.
Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Poem names senators with favorable descriptions. Broadside printed in dark blue and red on heavy white paper. On verso view of harbor in red, captioned in blue: Compliments of A.R. Nickerson, Boothbay Harbor, Me.
Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Printed in blue and black on cream paper. Across pages [3] and [3] drawing by Duncan of seated figure and part of another. Cover title.
Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Publisher's flier for limited edition of portfolio of drawings. Printed in blue and black on cream paper. Across pages [3] and [3] drawing by Duncan of seated figure and part of another. Cover title.
written by Henry Pettitt and A. Harris ; mechanism, W.P. Prescott ; appointments, Jos. F. Sullivan ; light effects, George Sevey; musical director, N. Lothian. Includes list of performers; number and title of play acts. Contains advertisements. At head of title: Boston Theatre; Eugene Thompkins, proprietor and manager. Performance: "Boston, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1887" "Boston Theatre programme vol. XVII, no. 82"
Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.
Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.
Text also printed under title. "John Brown's Entrance into Hell." John Brown enters hell and finds the place of honor reserved for Lincoln, who is expected with Sumner and Stevens.
Pages [2]-[4] blank. Printed on heavy paper. Poem in four numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Not as oft as I might, Dear Lord, have done. At end of text: Copyright, 1907, by N.B. Chrisman.
Euna Russell Mignault. Printed on heavy textured white paper. At head of title vignette of rose. Poem in ten lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Silas W. Hazeltine. Printed on birch bark; irregular edges; initial block; same poem printed on verso. At left of author's name, in brackets: [35] Poem in seven four-line stanzas, each beginning: Rest, brother, rest! At end of text below type ornament section: "The Traveller's Dream & Other Poems" 1860. Place of publication, publisher and suggested range of publication dates from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides.
Reply to Rudyard Kipling's poem The sons of Martha. Reply to Rudyard Kipling's poem The sons of Martha. by James Sinnott, Chatham, Illinois. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; line of cherubs below title. Poem in 29 stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Printed in Dedham:--1807. Price 4 cents single. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Printed in three columns. At head of text: The following were the meditations of a Minister of Vermont .. Intended to be separated. With: The factor's garland--Dialogue between death and a lady.