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.
Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 24.3 x 18.4 cm. Tid the grey mare was published under various titles. This version has 8 stanzas. Wood-engraving of rider with horse at left of title. Text is printed in two columns. In right column broken single line separates the two poems. Internal evidence suggests a Boston origin and the approximation of the imprint date. 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, attributes "Crazy Jane" to Matthew G. Lewis.
Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 18.9 x 14.7 cm. Tid the gray mare, also published as the Gray mare, or Johnny, the miller, and beautiful Kate (Shoemaker 8561). This version has 8 stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold Wholesale and Retail, corner of Merchant Row & Market square, (up stairs)-Boston. Leonard Deming was at this address, also given as no. 1 south side of Faneuil Hall, from 1829 to 1831. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.
Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 23.7 x 18.3 cm. Tid the Gray Mare was published under various titles. This version in 8 stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at no. 25, High Street, Providence. Henry Trumbull is known to have been at this address from 1826 to 1836. He worked as printer in Providence from ca. 1824 to 1838. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.
Printed on green paper within ornamental line border in two columns divided by single line. Imprint information suggested by the 1852 Thwing family Thanksgiving broadside with same border (HB18993). The initials H.N.G. have been established to be H.N. Greene.
Printed on pink paper within ornamental line border in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Imprint information suggested by the 1852 Thwing Family Thanksgiving broadside with same border (Brown University copy HB18993)
Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman scrubbing door; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.
words by Arthur Fields ; music by Theodore Morse. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Respectfully Dedicated to Lieut. Barrol 71st Regmient [sic.] N.G.S.N.Y." Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Arthur Fields / Dunk, N.Y.; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover.
lyric by Raymond Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "For you a rose" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: woman looking at moon across sea.
French fold; printed on double leaves. Colophon: 150 copies of the poem read by the author at Mills College on Degree Day. June 14, 1937 and printed by The Eucalyptus Press for Albert M. Bender for distribution among his friends.
French fold; printed on double leaves. Colophon: 150 copies of the poem read by the author at Mills College on Degree Day. June 14, 1937 and printed by The Eucalyptus Press for Albert M. Bender for distribution among his friends.
At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of soldier caught on fencepost. Title from first line. Four-line poem. A similar item entitled Soldier at Brown University was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co. (HB37951)
