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.
Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. Subtitle continues: He is a man of family, and not wishing to become a burden to the public, he takes this method of getting a livelihood. He sells them at any price. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule, below lower border: Bartlett & Hosford, Steam Printers, over Boylston Market. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
composed by Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Poem, in 12 stanzas. An appeal for charity. At head of text, quotation: "Inasmuch as ye have done it ...". Printed area: 23.2 x 6.8 cm. First line: When Christ was walking on the earth.
At head of text: The bearer, having lost his eyesignt, and not wishing to become a burden to the public, takes this method of gaining a livelihood, and most respectfully craves your patronage. Please buy my appeal! Poem in seven eight-line stanzas entitled: The blind man's appeal. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. At end of text below rule: Price, five cents. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Processed copy. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: A soldier wrote this, he is now on an island in the Pacific Ocean fighting the Japs. Suggested publication date from stamp "Rec'd Oct 21 1943" on Brown University copy.
Poem, issued as a Christmas greeting. On cover: 1940 [sprig of holly] Dear Friends: What could be more suited for these troublous, fateful times .. At end of text: Leslie Pinckney Hill (in the Federal Council Bulletin) French fold; printed on double leaves. Printed in green on beige paper; p. [4] blank. First line: Take up the Words of Jesus.
In verse. Caption title (on p. 3) Title on p. [1]: A tribute; enclosed within wreath design. At end of text: Olivia Ward Bush. (Copyrighted 1906.) Printed within single line border of bluish-green card stock; portrait of author on p. [2]; p. [4] blank.
In verse. Caption title (on p. 3) Title on p. [1]: A tribute; enclosed within wreath design. At end of text: Olivia Ward Bush. (Copyrighted 1906.) Printed within single line border of bluish-green card stock; portrait of author on p. [2]; p. [4] blank.
In verse. Caption title (on p. 3) Title on p. [1]: A tribute; enclosed within wreath design. At end of text: Olivia Ward Bush. (Copyrighted 1906.) Printed within single line border of bluish-green card stock; portrait of author on p. [2]; p. [4] blank.
Within ornamental borders on each page; borders on pages [2] and [3] same. "May 30, 1873." Programme of exercises at Harmony, Union and Byfield Cemeteries and at the South Church, with names of soldiers whose graves will be decorated and of the soldiers buried in distant or unknown graves. Includes text of two hymns.
Within ornamental borders on each page; borders on pages [2] and [3] same. "May 30, 1873." Programme of exercises at Harmony, Union and Byfield Cemeteries and at the South Church, with names of soldiers whose graves will be decorated and of the soldiers buried in distant or unknown graves. Includes text of two hymns.
Memorial card printed in gold and silver on heavy black pasteboard; text in gold. At center of title gold ornament with cherub head; at center of subtitle silver cross in crown, surrounded by rays; text of poem within gold outline of fringed curtain hanging from rod. Poem in eight lines.
Memorial card printed in gold and silver on heavy black pasteboard; text in gold. At center of title gold ornament with cherub head; at center of subtitle silver cross in crown, surrounded by rays; text of poem within gold outline of fringed curtain hanging from rod. Poem in eight lines.
Composed by her daughter. Within ornamental border with crossed corners. Poem in eight numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Separated. Sticker of Confederate flag with "Our Flag" at head of text. At head of text: A Private of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry .. At end of text: Z.N.W. First line: What fitter place to die, than on the plain.
Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Composed on hearing of the death of Wm. Sutton, late of New York. By Pheabe Whitings, of Darien, State of Connecticut.
Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Composed on hearing of the death of Wm. Sutton, late of New York. By Pheabe Whitings, of Darien, State of Connecticut.
Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Composed on hearing of the death of Wm. Sutton, late of New York. By Pheabe Whitings, of Darien, State of Connecticut.
Leon Spiro. Printed in red and white in calligraphy on translucent paper; text in white on red ground. Poem in six lines. At end of text: Leon Spiro, Réactions editor. Suggested publication date from ms. date on Brown University copy with author's signature.
