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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

Items in this collection

A foreword

A foreword

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At end of text: Chicago First edition. Written Oct. 16, 1918.

A font of type

A font of type

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Within ornamental border of type specimens delineated by double line borders.

A font of type

A font of type

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Within ornamental border of type specimens delineated by double line borders.

A font of type

A font of type

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Page [2] blank. At end of text: So rarely quoted is this gem by Walt Whitman and graciously brought to my attention by Jesse Merritt, Esq. ... Cover title.

A font of type

A font of type

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Within ornamental border of type specimens delineated by double line borders.

A flag on every school-house

At head of text: Published by Col. J.A. Joel, late editor Grand Army Gazette, Oct., 1895. At end of text: Copies of this poem may be obtained from J.A. Joel & Co., 63 Nassau St., N.Y.

A few lines composed on the dark day, of May 19, 1780

Poem marking the occurrence of the dark day in New England, on May 19, 1780, reminds people to forsake sin and turn to God. New England's chronicled "Dark Day" belongs to the phenomena, reported from various locales throughout the world, "when the light of the sun has been so bedimmed as to cause serious inconvenience, if not terror, to mankind" (cf. Fact, fancy, and fable, 1968) Poem marking the occurrence of the dark day in New England, on May 19, 1780, reminds people to forsake sin and turn to God. New England's chronicled "Dark Day" belongs to the phenomena, reported from various locales throughout the world, "when the light of the sun has been so bedimmed as to cause serious inconvenience, if not terror, to mankind" (cf. Fact, fancy, and fable, 1968) Caption title. Poetry in twenty-two four-line stanzas, numbered I-XXII, printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Title at head of second column; short line of type ornaments between title and sub-title. Wood-engraving showing darkened landscape with people at left of title. Publication date suggested by type and wood-engraving. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Ford or Wegelin.

A feller isn't mean ... out fishin'

Within single-line border with three lines along left and right margins within outer border. Title from first line. Poem in four five-line stanzas, with three lines in each stanza ending: Out fishin'. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A father's grave

A father's grave

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Printed in red and black on heavy paper within red single-line border. At head of title round lithograph of girl standing beside cross on grave; above and at sides red floral decoration. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A farewell to the year

A farewell to the year

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by Mr. Lockhart from the Spanish of Louis Baylon. Within single line ornamented border. At end of text within border: Knowles, Anthony & Co.'s Print.