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.
Broadsheet folded to create 8 pages. Caption title. "The is the substance of a sermon delivered by Rev. W.C. Wright, of Plainview, Texas, on the principles of Klankraft as set forth in this wonderful scripture, and is reprinted from the March 5 issue of the Imperial Night-Hawk"--P. 1. "Form 430-J.F.H."--P. 8. Includes text of poem in three stanzas beginning: An old man traveling a lone highway.
Presentation and reading [by] Adrienne Rich. ; Presented by the Department of English of The University of Connecticut with the support of the Hartford Insurance Group ... April 9, 1975, Edwin O. Smith School Auditorium. Printed on tan paper. Includes two poems each by the first-place co-winners, Michael North and Alex Smith, and biographical information about Rich and Wallace Stevens. Issued with broadside entitled The fact of a doorframe by Adrienne Cecile Rich (Brown Univ. copy HB37311/CT)
Printed in three columns within border of type ornaments. At head of center column wood-engraving of sailing ship. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Describes ill-treatment of sailors by captain. Place of publication suggested because of mention of town of Warren as home port; date approximation from internal evidence.
by William Carpenter. Broadsheet within single-line border with crossed corners on recto; no border on verso. On recto poem in 14 four-line stanzas. On verso, headed Wallace's wonderful water, prose defense of theory that the Earth is flat. Colophon at end of text on verso below rule: Published by John Hampden, Balham, Surrey.
Ted Joans. Poem. At end of text, blind embossed colophon: Printed ... 30 Oct. '78 by Dikko Faust at the Center for Book Arts, NYC. Printed on heavy cardboard; verso black. At end of poem, type ornament of hand with index finger pointing at name, Ted Joans. First lines: If you should see/ a man/ walking down a crowded street.
Poem in seven numbered stanzas followed by bible passage on page 4. Below text on page 1: No. 34. At end of text on page 4: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St., New York. The American Tract Society was located at the above address between 1832 and 1894, and again starting in 1899. This piece printed in "old" type before 1848. Dated because hymn according to the Dictionary of hymnology (1892, p. 559), was first published in 1849.
Printed in two columns divided by ornamental chain decoration. At head of text: Acts ii. 17, 18. And it shall come to pass in the last days .. Poem in 23 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
By Julia M. Thayer. At head of title cut of little boy in outdoor chair. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 20. Prose and poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Processed copy. Glossy photograph of top half of front page of issue containing the first printing of C.C. Moore's Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas.
David Walker. Printed in blue and black on beige card stock. At head of title: Edge Broadsheet No. 1. Colophon in lower half of p. [1]: 100 copies printed at The Green Leaf Press by Edge ...
Pages [1] and [4] blank. Text printed with music for first stanza on page [2]; other four stanzas on page [3] At foot of page [2] note beginning: The words of this song were written in 1843, by the late Henry Ware, Jr. .... Suggested range of publication date from internal evidence and mention of date of Ware's text; song calls for abolition of slavery which occurred in 1863.
Page [4] blank. French-fold; printed on double page. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Robert Frost as a young man, captioned: Robert Frost, 1874-1963. Cover title. Announces meeting and talk on Frost by Lawrence [i.e. Lawrance] Thompson.
