Performance and Entertainment

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.
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Items in this collection

A poem on those unfortunate persons who perished in the late storm, which happened on the 11th September, 1804

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border. At head of title wood-engraving of six coffins. Printed area measures: 29.6 x 15.8 cm. At end of text: Captain Luce, and Messrs Lewis and Blaney are found and buried--likewise, several others, whose names we have not learned--It is supposed upwards of twenty persons perished in this gale, on our coast. Poem in sixteen numbered four-line stanzas. In lower margin: Price 3 cents. Not in Evans, Bristol or Shaw & Shoemaker. First line: Ye sailors all, who e'er you be.

A poem

A poem

Brown University

by Mrs. Wm. T. Baker, of Chicago, nee Eliza A. Dunster. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Read at Miss Gilman's Re-union of her Bradford Graduates, June 22nd, 1870, at her house, No. 134 West Chester Park, Boston, Mass. Poem in 14 stanzas of varying length.

A poem

A poem

Brown University

by Mrs. Wm. T. Baker, of Chicago, nee Eliza A. Dunster. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Read at Miss Gilman's Re-union of her Bradford Graduates, June 22nd, 1870, at her house, No. 134 West Chester Park, Boston, Mass. Poem in 14 stanzas of varying length.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plan for a curriculum of the soul

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Text of poem begins in lower two/thirds of page [1] and continues clockwise to page [4] and back to page [1]. In lower right corner of page [1]: Charles Olson. Printed on cranberry cardstock as wrapper for stapled-in broadside inviting subscription and advertising available and planned issues in series "A Curriculum of the Soul" Sequential numbering next to words throughout text of poem corresponds to number and title of individual issues advertised in stapled-in flier.

A Pilgrim chant

A Pilgrim chant

Brown University

In five verses. At head of text: Editor's note:-The third stanza of this poem refers to ... a well known theory, viz:-"The rock itself ... may have been a pilgrim, drifting down in some pre-historic time upon an iceberg" At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. On p. 4: Reprinted from New England magazine. Collected in her Verses ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1912) Probable date from ms. note in Brown University copy. First line: O Pilgrim land! from over crested wave.

A Pilgrim chant

A Pilgrim chant

Brown University

In five verses. At head of text: Editor's note:-The third stanza of this poem refers to ... a well known theory, viz:-"The rock itself ... may have been a pilgrim, drifting down in some pre-historic time upon an iceberg" At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. On p. [4]: Reprinted from New England magazine. Collected in her Verses ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1912) Probable date from ms. note in Brown University copy. First line: O Pilgrim land! from over crested wave.

A picture

A picture

Brown University

At head of text: Composed by C.L. Quimby while living in the Adirondack Mountains.

A picture

A picture

Brown University

At head of text: Composed by C.L. Quimby while living in the Adirondack Mountains.

A picnic for two

A picnic for two

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in brown and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of boy and dog with large picnic basket. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; Albert Von Tilzer is author of music. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.