James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music
- Identifier
- Driscoll
- Repository
- The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts
- Language
- English
- Size
- 20.0 shelves (426 boxes)
- Dates
- approximately 1770s-1959
- Collection Stack Location
- 2 54-55
- Abstract
- The Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music, amassed by engineer and organist J. Francis Driscoll (1875-1959), is one of the largest and most representative collections of its kind. The approximated 80,000 pieces of sheet music and related material were arranged into sections by Driscoll himself, and reflect his collecting interests and preferences. Some of the music is arranged according to imprint information (i.e. American imprints, publishers’ imprints, illustrated imprints, etc.); other sections in the collection are arranged by subjects, such as History and Politics, United States regions and states, Ethnic and Religious, Dance Styles, etc.
- Language
- Materials are primarily in English.
- Creator
- Driscoll, J. Francis (James Francis), 1875-1959
Provenance
Acquired: 1968.
Conditions Governing Access
The James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music is open for research in the General Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Cite As
James Francis Driscoll Collection of American Sheet Music, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Processed by
Bernard E. Wilson, after 1968.
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2011 April 7 by Lisa Calahan and Andrew Steadham.
Biography of J. Francis Driscoll
James Francis Driscoll (1875-1959) was born into a prominent family in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was by profession a civil engineer, but music was always his passion. He was for many years the organist at Boston’s Sacred Heart Cathedral and also its choral director. Having a great interest in history, he lectured before the Brookline Historical Society and the Bostonian Society. As early as the 1890s, however, Driscoll was well on his way to amassing one of the largest collections of American sheet music extant.
Interested in history, fascinated by the graphic arts, and devoted to music, his interest never flagged. His children related anecdotes of the times when as youngsters, they spent many Saturdays trailing after their father as he made the rounds of book dealers, pawn shops, junk yards and auction houses. Driscoll made it his policy to swap less perfect pieces and duplicates in favor of as perfect specimens as could be found. He was famous (or infamous, depending on one’s point of view) among others of the music-collecting fraternity for his sharp bargaining, and his reluctance to part with any of his “highspots”.
Scope and Content of the Collection
The Driscoll Sheet Music collection consists of well over 80,000 pieces of sheet music, divided into twenty sections by the collector, with many further subdivisions under each main section. There is considerable overlap between the Sections: one may find the same piece of sheet music in Illustrated Imprints as in History and Politics, and also in “Type” collection, for example. Some sections or parts of sections have been removed from the original groupings and cataloged separately in the Newberry's Online Catalog; they can be searched by author, title, or subject, but not by original grouping. The sections where music has been removed and cataloged separately are: Section 1: Early American Imprints; Section 4: Publishers' Imprints; Section 5: Illustrated Imprints; Section 12: Ethnic and Religious; Section 18: Foreign Imprints; and Section 19: Books. See series descriptions for more specific information.
An additional section in the original acquisition entitled "Duplicates" is not included in this inventory.
May contain harmful language; in particular Section 13.
Organization
Papers are organized in the following sections:
- Section 1: Early American Imprints, approximately 1770-1835
- Box 13 and Newberry Online Catalog
- Section 2: American Imprints, 1820 to approximately 1959
- Boxes 15-92
- Section 3: The “Type” Collection
- Boxes 367-426
- Section 4: Publishers' Imprints
- Boxes 93, 96-97, 101-102, 104, 106-107
- Section 5: Illustrated Imprints
- Boxes 108-138
- Section 6: History and Politics
- Boxes 139-171
- Section 7: United States - Local
- Boxes 171a-200
- Section 8: Nature and Calendar
- Boxes 201-204
- Section 9: Communication and Transportation
- Boxes 205-208
- Section 10: Composers and Lyricists
- Boxes 209-263
- Section 11: Dancing and Ballet
- Boxes 264-283
- Section 12: Ethnic and Religious
- Boxes 284-291
- Section 13: Minstrels and Blackface
- Boxes 292-307a
- Section 14: Rarities
- Boxes 308-309
- Section 15: Sports and Athletics
- Boxes 310-311
- Section 16: Theatrical
- Boxes 312-333
- Section 17: Miscellaneous
- Boxes 334-356
- Section 18: Foreign Imprints
- Boxes 357-366
- Section 19: Books
- Newberry Online Catalog
Catalog Record
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991684068805867
Indexed Terms
- Driscoll, J. Francis (James Francis), 1875-1959 -- Library
- African American composers
- African Americans -- Songs and music
- Dance music -- Scores
- Ephemera
- Minstrel music -- United States
- Music
- Music -- United States
- Music title pages
- Musicals -- Scores
- Popular music -- United States -- Scores
- Sheet music
- Songs -- United States -- Scores
- Sports -- Songs and music
Indexed Terms
Inventory
Approximately 220 pieces issued before 1801, and about 1,450 imprints for the period 1801-1820. Other categories in this section include early engraved music having title page vignettes and early copyrights (1816-1835).
In addition to the sheet music, this section originally included a number of early American secular imprints of collections, anthologies, periodicals and the like, in addition to a number of 18th century imprints bound up into volumes. Examples included Buckingham’s Boston Musical Miscellany, Wright’s Columbian Magazine for August 1789, the Universal Asylum for March 1790, the Boston Magazine for January 1784, the Pennsylvania Magazine for March 1775, and others, all having either music or something of musical interest in them.
For the Early American Imprints, ca. 1770-1820 section, individual pieces have been cataloged separately and are accessible through the Newberry Online Catalog. They were originally in Driscoll Boxes 1-12. The remaining subsections, Vignettes and Copyrights, are in Driscoll Box 13. Driscoll Box 14 (Miscellaneous imprints) is missing.
Remainder of section arranged into two topics: Vignettes and Copyright Examples.
- Title
- Vignettes,
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Copyright examples,
- Dates
- 1816-1835
This, the largest single component of the Driscoll Sheet Music Collection, has been broken down into chronological sub-sections, alphabetized by title. After these main subsections are filed miscellaneous 20th century songs, and miscellaneous unsorted imprints, mostly mid 1800s. Taken together, the first four sections give an unparalleled chronological sweep across the whole vista of American musical history.
Organized in the following subseries: 1. Songs, 1821-1860; 2. Songs, 1861-1890; 3. Songs, 1891-1900; 4. Songs, 1901-ca. 1959; 5. Miscellaneous 20th Century songs; and 6. Miscellaneous unsorted imprints, ca. 1800s.
- Title
- A,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- B (not found),
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- C,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- D, E,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- F,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- G,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- H,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- I,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Id - Iv,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- J, K,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- L,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Ma - Mi,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Mo - My,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- N,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- O, Oh,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- O,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- P,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Q, R,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Sa - Sm,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- So - Sy,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- T,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- U, V,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Wa - We,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Wh,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Wi - Wr,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- Y, Z,
- Dates
- ca. 1821-1860
- Title
- A,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- B,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- C,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- D,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- E, F,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- G, H,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- I,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- J, K, La - Le,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- Li - Lu,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- M,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- My, N,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- O,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- O, Oh,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- P,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- Q, R,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- Sa - Sn,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- So - Sw,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- T,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- U, V, Wa - Wh,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- When - Ws, Y, Z,
- Dates
- ca. 1861-1890
- Title
- A - C,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- D - H,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- I,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- J - L,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- M,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- N - R,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- S - Z,
- Dates
- ca. 1891-1900
- Title
- A,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- B,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- C,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- D, E,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- F, G,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- H,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- I (a-m),
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- I (n-z), I'm,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- If - It,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- J, K,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- L,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Ma - Me,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Mi - My,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- N, O,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- P, R,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Sa - Sm,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Sn - Sy,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Ta - Tha,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- The - Tw,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- U, V, Wa - Wr,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Wh,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- When,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Y, Z,
- Dates
- ca. 1901-1959
- Title
- Miscellaneous,
- Dates
- 1901-1959
- Title
- Miscellaneous,
- Dates
- ca. 1800s
While some of the other sections represent attempts to fill out a series on some particular topic, this is a special grouping designed to show the evolution and development of American music as a whole and so it contains early pieces and late, instrumental music and vocal, rarities and commonalities, engraved, stereotyped, lithographed, colored, black and white and non-illustrated covers, minstrel and theatrical pieces, music from the presses of many different publishers from the pens of many different composers and poets; in short, a representative sampling from virtually all the other sections and categories of the collection. Thus, it is a collection within the Collection, consisting of music chosen by Driscoll. After the main sequence, there are two boxes of variant versions of popular titles, such as "Home Sweet Home" and "Woodman Spare That Tree."
Arranged alphabetically by title.
- Title
- A
- Title
- B
- Title
- Ca - Cl
- Title
- E
- Title
- F
- Title
- G
- Title
- H
- Title
- I
- Title
- J
- Title
- K
- Title
- L
- Title
- M
- Title
- N
- Title
- O
- Title
- P
- Title
- Q, R
- Title
- R
- Title
- S
- Title
- T
- Title
- U - V
- Title
- W
- Title
- Y
- Title
- Individual Titles: Aladdin
- Title
- Individual Titles: Annie Rooney
- Title
- Individual Titles: Calisthenic Rondos
- Title
- Individual Titles: Jockey Hat and Feather
- Title
- Individual Titles: The Minstrels Returned from the War
- Title
- Individual Titles: Monastery Bells
- Title
- Individual Titles: Nellie Gray
- Title
- Individual Titles: Pestal, or "Prison Waltz"
- Title
- Individual Titles: Wait for the Wagon
- Title
- Individual Titles: When I saw Sweet Nelly Home
- Title
- Individual Titles: Woodman Spare That Tree
- Title
- Individual Titles: Home, Sweet Home
Some outstanding categories in this section include the Boston publisher Bradlee (over 600 pieces); Graupner of Boston; the Hewitts (175); Isaiah Thomas (150); and Mesier (300). The Graupner imprints, now cataloged individually, are of singular interest. Gottlieb Graupner, both as musician and publisher, was very active in late 18th and early 19th century Boston, and for that reason, Mr. Driscoll was particularly interested in him. The Graupner category consists of about 450 alphabetized imprints, a couple dozen bound volumes, and a fair amount of associated materials, including matted portraits, Graupner autographs, newspapers in which Graupner advertised or was mentioned, etc. In addition, there are eight Graupner and Mallett imprints and more than a dozen Graupner and Norman imprints. Counting supplementary pieces, duplicates etc., the Graupner category totals about 825 items, undoubtedly one of the best such collections in the world.
Also included in this section are categories on sellers’ stamps (nearly 100 music dealers’ embossed imprints); and songster publishers Dewitt and Hitchcock.
Some pieces by specific publishers have been cataloged separately and are accessible through the Newberry Online Catalog. Those publishers are Bradlee, Graupner, (selection of) Hewitt, Mesier, and Von Hagen.
Organized in the following subseries: 1. Publishers' Imprints; 2. Sellers' stamps; and 3. Songsters.
- Title
- Ackerman; Aitken; Andre & Co.; Ashton; Atwill; Bacon; Bagioli; Bailey, White & Co.; Bassford & Brower; Bates & Bendix; Birch; Blair & Lydon; Blake; Blume; Bourne; Bradlee; Brown; Brown & Perkins; Browne; Browne & Buckwell; Christman; Clifton; Cooper; Couenhouen; Couenhouen & Duffy; Coulson; the Misses Cowan; Currier & Co.; Cutter; Delano; Derwort; DeWitt; Dickson; and Ditson
- Title
- [Bradlee: See Online Catalog]
- Title
- Dubois; Dubois & Bacon; Dubois & Stodart; Dudley; Edgar; Embree; Fairchild & Dwyer; Fiot; Fiot, Meignen & Co.; Firth & Hall; Firth, Pond & Co.; Ford & Crockett; Geib & Co.; Geib & Walker; Geslain; Gilbert; Gilfert; Godone; Gould; Hall & Son; Hance; Hayden; Hews; Himan; Homans & Ellis; Hopkins; and Howe
- Title
- Ferrett
- Title
- [Graupner: See Online Catalog]
- Title
- [Graupner: Contents except for papers of Graupner and Driscoll's notes recataloged: See Online Catalog]
- Title
- Hewitt: Some recataloged. See Online Catalog
- Title
- Hunnewell & Co.; Hupfeld & Son; Hyde Park Co.; Isenbeck; E.W. Jackson; G.K. Jackson; Jollie & Millet; Jordens & Martens; Keith; Kindell; Klemm; Klemm & Bros.; Kotzscmar; Kretschmar & Nunns; Krey; Lawton; Lee & Walker; Lincoln & Thompson; Longley; Lowe; Massachusett Music Co.; McClennen; McGrath; McLellan; Miller; Miller & Hyatt; Millet; Moran; Oakes; Paff; Parker & Ditson; Pearson; Pelletier; Peters; Pond & Co.; Prentiss; Prentiss & Clark; Prüfer; and Reed
- Title
- [Mesier: See Online Catalog]
- Title
- Riley; Root & Cady; Ross & Co.; Russell; Russell & Fuller; Russell & Richardson; Russell & Tolman; Samuels; Saxton & Peirce; Siegling; Slinglandt; Spear; Stevens; Stockwell; Stone; Swisher; Swords; Thibault; Thompson; Thurston; Tolman & Co.; Torp; Tremaine; Trumpler; Vanderbeek; Van Gelder; J. & D. Walker; and Waters
- Title
- [Von Hagen: notes and miscellaneous materials only. Individual pieces of sheet music cataloged separately: See Online Catalog.]
- Title
- Wa-Wan Press; Weatherbee; Weizel; Wellman; Weston; White & Potter; White, Smith & Co.; Willig; Winne; Winner; Wittig; Wood; and Worley
- Title
- Sellers' stamps
- Title
- DeWitt; Hitchcock
There are three categories in this section: Firms, Miscellaneous, and Portraits. The largest grouping of illustrated imprints is from the firms Bufford (250), Endicott (150), Pendleton (104), and Thayer (115). Miscellaneous includes engraved title pages (150, some of which were removed to be cataloged separately), 19th century black and white lithographed covers (400), 19th century colored covers (85), mixed illustrated covers (100), and music covers that have been matted (100, on miscellaneous subjects; oversized and housed at the end of the entire Driscoll collection). Portraits include not only those of composers and poets, but also many famous historical figures, theatrical people, military men and other luminaries. Included among them are nearly fifty of the rare “paste-ons”, covers having early photographs glued onto the title page. There are approximately 3,250 pieces in this category, arranged alphabetically by the person pictured.
Organized in the following subseries: 1. Firms; 2. Miscellaneous; and 3. Portraits.
- Title
- S. Ackerman, NYC; American Photo-Lithograph Co., NYC; Anonymous, NYC; Beacon Lithograph Co., Boston; Bising & Gerlach, Cincinnati; Bouvé, Boston; Bouvé & Sharpe, Boston; E. Brown, Jr., NYC; Bufford, NYC & Boston; Canova & Tanby, NYC; Chandler, Boston; C.O. Clayton, NYC; Crosby, Boston; Nathaniel Currier, NYC; Ehrgott & Forbringer, Cincinnati; Ehrgott & Krebs, Cincinnati; H.C. Eno, NYC; C.B. Folton, NYC; Fleetwood, NYC; Forbes, Boston; Gregson, Donaldson & Elmes, Cincinnati; and Haskell, Boston
- Title
- Endicott, NYC; Endicott & Swett, NYC
- Title
- Imbert, NYC; D.C. Johnston; Lewis & Brown, NYC; Macbrair & Sons, Cincinnati; Major & Knapp, NYC; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, NYC; Michelin & Leefe, NYC; Moore, Boston; Nagel, NYC; New England Litho., Boston; Newsom, Philadelphia; Oakley, Boston; Thos. Russell, NYC; Sarony & Co., NYC; Sarony & Major, NYC; J.W.A. Scott, Boston; Senefelder, Boston; and Serrell & Perkins, NYC
- Title
- Pendleton
- Title
- Sarony & Major & Knapp, NYC
- Title
- J.C.S., W.C.S., & W.S. Sharp, Boston; Sharp & Michelin, Boston; Snyder & Black, NYC; Snyder, Black & Sturn, NYC; Tappan & Bradford, Boston; R. Teller, NYC; Thayer, Boston; H.A. Thomas, NYC; Tomas & Eno, NYC; Tompson & Ramsay, Boston; G.H. Walker, Boston; R.A. Welcke, NYC; and White, Piplar & Co., Boston
- Title
- Misc. Early Engravings (some removed)
- Title
- Black and white lithograph covers; Miscellaneous 19th-century color covers; and Mixed illustrations
- Title
- Music covers, mounted on cream colored mats (oversized)
- Title
- A, Ba-Be
- Title
- Bel-Bz
- Title
- C
- Title
- D, E
- Title
- F, G
- Title
- H
- Title
- I - K
- Title
- L
- Title
- M
- Title
- N, O
- Title
- P, Q
- Title
- R
- Title
- S
- Title
- T
- Title
- U, V, Y, Z
- Title
- W
- Title
- Paste-on portraits
- Title
- Unknown, Unsorted, Miscellaneous
Among the many categories in this section are American flags (90), Labor and Trades, Lafayette (30), Lincoln (120), Washington (133), the Mexican War (75), and the Military in general, including many lithographs of officers and men in uniform, views of parade grounds, drill scenes, and the like (550). It also includes the Spanish-American War (100), the “Suffragette” Movement, Daniel Webster (50), Whigs (100), World War I (ca. 1,600 songs) and the Presidential Series of some 425 pieces, including a representative selection of songs about every president, with the sole exception of Harry Truman. To these has been added a folder of related items, containing 50 songs of different campaigns, unsuccessful candidates, and vice-presidents. Fairs such as the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and the Boston Peace Jubilees of 1869 and 1872 are all represented.
One of the most important categories is that devoted to the Civil War, which consists of 1,250 pieces. Included among these are 150 pieces of Confederate music: the song “Dixie” is represented by nearly 50 different printings.
Boxes 147, 149, 155, and 159 are missing.
Topics originally in this section entitled, "Adams and Liberty, songs", "Battles," and "Civil War, general," were individually cataloged: see the Newberry Online Catalog.
Arranged by topic and alphabetically by title therein, except for the "Presidents" topic, which is arranged by order of U.S. Presidents.
- Title
- Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 [For World's Columbian Exposition, see Series 7, United States - Local - Illinois - Chicago]
- Title
- Civil War - North
- Title
- Civil War - Miscellaneous
- Title
- Civil War - Confederate
- Title
- Civil War - Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee
- Title
- Civil War - Dixie
- Title
- [box missing]
- Title
- Flags
- Title
- "Hail Columbia," song. (23 instrumental arrangements, 25 vocal, 4 misc.)
- Title
- [box missing]
- Title
- Labor and trades
- Title
- Lafayette
- Title
- Lincoln (see also Presidents topic in this section)
- Title
- Mexican War
- Title
- Military (See also United States Local, Massachusetts: Military and United States Local, New York: Military).
- Title
- Patriotic songs, alphabetical A-N, including "La Marseillaise," "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean," "America," etc.
- Title
- [Patriotic Songs, O-Z; box missing]
- Title
- Patriotic songs, misc.
- Title
- Peace Jubilee, Boston, 1869 & 1872
- Title
- Presidents: 1. George Washington; 2. John Adams; 3. Thomas Jefferson; 4. James Madison; 5. James Monroe; 6. John Quincy Adams; 7. Andrew Jackson; 8. Martin Van Buren; 9. William Henry Harrison; 10. John Tyler; 11. James K. Polk; 12. Zachary Taylor; 13. Millard Fillmore; 14. Franklin Pierce; 15. James Buchanan; 16. Abraham Lincoln; 17. Andrew Johnson; 18. Ulysses S. Grant; and 19. Rutherford B. Hayes.
- Title
- Presidents: 20. James A. Garfield; 21. Chester A. Arthur; 22. Grover Cleveland; 23. Benjamin Harrison; 24. William McKinley; 25. Theodore Roosevelt; 26. William H. Taft; 27. Woodrow Wilson; 28. Warren G. Harding; 29. Calvin Coolidge; 30. Herbert Hoover; 31. Franklin D. Roosevelt; and 32. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Title
- [box missing]
- Title
- Presidents, related: includes campaign songs, unsuccessful candidates, vice presidents, etc.
- Title
- Spanish-American War
- Title
- Star-Spangled Banner
- Title
- Suffragette (Suffragist) movement
- Title
- Washington
- Title
- Webster, Daniel
- Title
- The West and the Whig Party -- includes 10 "early Western imprints."
- Title
- World War I (originally titled, "European War).
- Title
- World War II
- Title
- Yankee Doodle: includes 59 instrumental, 14 vocal
This section comprises music about and imprints from the various regions of the United States. There is a folder for each of the fifty states, and for Bermuda, New England (as a region), the Panama Canal Zone, Washington D.C., and a miscellaneous folder. The only states not represented by at least one song are the two Dakotas. The largest collections are for Massachusetts (2,100) and New York (1,550). Other well-represented states are California (100), Connecticut (100), Maine (150) Pennsylvania (350) and Rhode Island (200). These larger categories are in turn broken down by community. Within these communities, the larger cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Boston are further broken down on a topical basis, For instance, Boston is divided into Boston Common, Bunker Hill, Charlestown, churches, Faneuil Hall, Boston Harbor, hotels, Jamaica Pond, mayors, military, miscellaneous, music houses and dealers, etc., making a total of 1,150 for Boston alone. In addition, Massachusetts is rounded out by 275 Military pieces, and 100 miscellaneous pieces, including 35 governors; New York, by 150 military and 100 miscellaneous, with 17 governors. Some pieces from this section were removed and cataloged individually: see the Newberry's Online Catalog.
Arranged roughly alphabetically by state, except for Massachusetts and New York, which are before all other states.
- Title
- Massachusetts: Acushnet; Agawam; Amesbury; Amherst College; Andover; Arlington; Auburndale; Ayer; Barnstable; (Camp) Becket; Bernardston; Beverly; Bradford; Bridgewater; and Boston - Boston Common, Boston Museum, Boston Music Hall, Boston Theatre, Bunker Hill, Charlestown
- Title
- Massachusetts: Boston - Churches; Faneuil Hall; Harbor; Hotels; Jamaica Pond; Mayors (includes Brimmer, Curley, Fitzgerald, Otis); and Military
- Title
- Massachusetts: Boston - Miscellaneous; Music houses (alphabetically by firm); and Musical organizations, in general (alphabetically by firm)
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- Massachusetts: Boston - Musical organizations (Germania Musical Society, Handel & Haydn Society); Newspapers (Boston American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Pearl & Literary Gazette, Boston Post, Boston Press Club, and Boston Traveler); Organizations (includes: Ancient Order of Hibernians, Bay State Commandery, Boston & Roxbury Whig Association, Boston Assemblies, Boston Athletic Club, Boston Benedict Club, Boston Burns Club, Boston Charitable Irish Society, Boston Clay Club, Colony Club, Gaudeamus Society, Lowell Baseball Club of Boston, Malibran Society, Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society, Musical Frog Club, St. Botolph Club, Union Boat Club, and Washington Inebriates Reform Association; Portraits (includes Phillips Brooks, Mayors Curley and Fitzgerald, Cardinal O'Connell); Schools and colleges; and South Boston
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- Massachusetts: Boston - Special occasions and events; State House; Streets; Theatres (includes: Castle Square, Columbia Music Hall, Cook's Royal Amphitheatre, Federal Street Theatre, Harrington Museum, Howard Athenaeum, Keith's Theatre, National Theatre, and Tremont Theatre); and Transportation
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- Massachusetts: Brockton; Brookline; Cambridge (includes Harvard and M.I.T.); Cape Cod; Chelsea; Cochituate Lake; Deerfield; East Boston; Everett; and Fall River
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- Massachusetts: Fitchburg; Framingham; Gardiner; Gloucester; Goshen; Halifax; Harvard (town of); Haverhill; Holliston; Holyoke; Hudson; Hull; Hyannis; Hyde Park; Ipswich; Lawrence; Lexington; Lowell; Lynn; Malden; Marblehead; Marlboro; Martha's Vineyard; Medford (includes Tufts University); Melrose; Millis; Nahant; Nantasket Beach; Nantucket; Natick; Needham; New Bedford; Newbury and Newburyport; Newton; North Adams; and North Eastham
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- Massachusetts: Northampton (includes Smith College); Norton; Norwood; Peabody; Pemberton; Pittsfield; Point Shirley; Plymouth; Provincetown; Quincy; Reading; Revere and Revere Beach; Rockland; Rockport; Roxbury; Salem; South Hadley (includes Mount Holyoke College); Springfield; Stoughton; Swampscott; Taunton; Wakefield; Waltham; Watertown; Waverly; Wellesley (includes Wellesley College); West Tisbury; Westborough; Westfield; Westport Harbor; Weymouth; Whitman; Wilbraham; Williamstown (includes Williams College); Winthrop; Woburn; Woods Hole; Worcester; Wrentham; and Yarmouth
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- Massachusetts: Military
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- Massachusetts: Miscellaneous, including governors
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- New York: Albany; Ameniaville; Auburn; Batavia; Buffalo; Catskill; Cherry Valley; Clinton; College Point; Cooperstown; Dansville; Elizabethtown; Elmhurst; Fort Washington; Fort Wood; Geneva; Ithaca (includes Cornell University); Liberty; Little Falls; Manlius; Mohawk; and Mohawk Valley
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- New York: New York City - Athletics; Beaches; Brooklyn; Castle Garden; Churches; and Circus
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- New York: New York City - Halls; Hotels; and Miscellaneous
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- New York: New York City - Music houses; Newspapers; Organizations; Parades; Parks; Portraits (see also Illustrated Imprints Series); Schools & colleges; and Special occasions
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- New York: New York City - Squares; Streets (includes Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and Misc.); Theatres; Transportation; and World's Fair, 1851
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- New York: Newburg; Niagara Falls; North Granville; Norwich; Nyack-on-Hudson; Oakwood; Olean; Owego; Oyster Bay; Pelham; Plattsburgh; Poughkeepsie (includes Vassar College); Rhineland; Richfield Springs; Rochester; Saratoga; Skaneateles; Springfield; and Syracuse
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- New York: Troy; Tuxedo; Utica; Valatie; Watertown; Westchester; West Point (includes U.S. Military Academy); Windsor; Whitestown; and Yonkers
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- New York: Military
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- New York: Miscellaneous (includes canals, governors)
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- Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; Bermuda; Colorado; Delaware; and Florida
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- California
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- Connecticut (includes Yale University); Georgia; Hawaii; and Idaho
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- Illinois (including Chicago imprints, pre-1870, Columbian Exposition, Views, University of Chicago); Indiana; Iowa; Kansas (includes imprints and wax impression of the Kansas Territorial Seal); and Kentucky
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- Louisiana (Includes New Orleans); and Maine
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- Maryland (includes Baltimore imprints)
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- Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; and New England (as a region)
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- New Hampshire (includes imprints, Baker family, Dartmouth College); New Jersey (includes Rutgers University, Princeton University); New Mexico; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; and Panama Canal Zone
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- Pennsylvania: Colleges: (includes Pennsylvania College, Pennsylvania Military Academy, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania); Governors; Johnstown Flood; In general; Philadelphia - Centennial Exhibition, Churches, Germantown, Hotels, Independence Hall and Liberty Bell, E. Ives, Jr. (Philadelphia Musical Seminary), Military, Miscellaneous, Music houses, Organizations, Special occasions, Theatres (includes Arch Street Theatre, Chestnut Street Opera House, Chestnut Street Theatre, Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre, and Stanley Theatre); and Pittsburgh
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- Rhode Island (includes Bristol, Brown University, Governors, Military, Newport, Providence, Miscellaneous); and States in general
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- Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; West Virginia; Washington state; Washington, D.C.; Wisconsin; and Wyoming
The largest categories in this Section are: Christmas (150), flowers, fruit and vegetables (100), Memorial (Decoration) Day, the moon (50), and water (100, including ice, snow, skating, sleighing, and snow sports). These are supplemented by folders on autumn, clouds, Easter, eclipses, the world as a globe, hurricanes, lightning, May Day, New Year’s, rain and rainbows, seasons and months (in general) spring, stars, summer, Thanksgiving, trees, and Valentine’s Day.
Organized in two sections: Calendar, and Nature, and arranged alphabetically by topic therein.
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- Calendar: Christmas
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- Calendar: Easter; May Day; Memorial Day; Months; New Year's; Thanksgiving; Valentine's Day; and Miscellaneous (includes clouds, eclipses, globes, hurricanes, stars, trees, and twilight)
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- Nature: Flowers; Fruits and vegetables; Miscellaneous; and Moon
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- Nature: Rain and rainbows; Rivers; Seasons in general; and Winter (includes ice, snow, skating, sleighing, snow sports)
Outstanding among the categories in this Section is the one dealing with automobiles (130 pieces). These were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institutions, as described in the Washington Daily News for Oct. 23, 1939, page 14. (See also Hobbies Magazine, December 1939). In addition, there are 100 aeronautical pieces including several on balloons, over a hundred pieces on letters, postcards, stamps, the telegraph and telegrams, 150 railroad pieces, many with rare lithographs of early engines and trains upon the covers, 125 telephone pieces, and other music dealing with trolley cars, rolling chairs, the Atlantic Cable (see miscellaneous), oil, ships and the sea (see miscellaneous), radio, horse-drawn vehicles, etc.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
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- Airplanes; Automobiles; and Balloons
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- Bicycles; Horse-drawn vehicles; Letters; and Miscellaneous
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- Oil; Radio; and Telephone
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- Railroads; Telegrams; Transportation, in general; and Trolley cars
The Composers category (ca. 6,800 pieces) includes pieces of native-born composers and American imprints of foreign composers. In the folder on Irving Berlin, containing about 600 pieces, there are 150 songs from Berlin’s various Music Box Reviews. There are over 200 pieces in the George M. Cohan folder, including most of his show tunes. The Stephen Foster category contains over 700 pieces, comprising some 90 different titles, including 62 first editions, over 150 various printings, three score instrumental arrangements, and the like. Jerome Kern is represented by over 350 pieces; Sousa by 150 pieces (including about 70 marches). The folder on Ethelbert Nevin (87 pieces) is indicative of Mr. Driscoll’s thoroughness; as an organist, he was interested in Nevin’s The Rosary, and managed to collect some 30 different printings of it, including the first and its variations.
The Lyricists category (ca. 2,900 pieces) includes texts by native-born poets wherever published, and American imprints of foreign poetry.
At the end of this section are two boxes of autographed sheet music. This comprises nearly 300 pieces of music each autographed, usually by the composer, and occasionally by the author or dedicatee.
Organized in the following subseries: Composers; Lyricists; and Autographed Sheet Music.
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- Abt; Alberti; Ascher; Audran; Bailey; Ball; Barker; Barnett; Homer & J.C. Bartlett; and Baumbach
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- Mrs. H.H.A (Amy) Beach; and Beethoven
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- Bellak; Berg; Beyer; H.R. Bishop; T.B. Bishop; Bissell; Bizet; and Blake
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- Blumenthal; Bohm; Bond; Bricker; Buck; Bullard; Burgmuller; Cadman; Callcott; Chadwick; Clark; Clayton; Clementi; Clifton; and Cobb & Edwards
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- [Carr: removed and cataloged separately. See Newberry Library Online Catalog]
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- Cole and Johnson; Connolly; Converse; Corbin; Corticelli; Cramer; and Croisez
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- Czerny; Daniels; and DeKoven
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- Delibes; Dempster; Dorn; Dresser; Dressler; Dreyschock; Driscoll; Duval; Eaton; Edwards; Elliott; Engelbrecht; Faust; Fields; and Fischer
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- Foote; Fox; and Fry
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- Foster, Stephen
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- Gershwin; Getze; Ghys; (For Gilbert & Sullivan, see Theatrical series); Gillet; Gilmore; Glover; and Gooch
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- Gottschalk
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- Greene; Grobe; Gumbert; and Gung'l
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- Handy; Harris; Heller; and Henselt
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- Herbert; and Herz
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- G. Hewitt; H. Hewitt; J. Hewitt; Hews; Hill; Hodges; Hoffman; Holst; Hopkinson; Hosmer; Howe; Hummel; and Hunten
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- Isaacs; Jacobs-Bond; and Jungmann
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- Kehr; Knight; Kolling; Krug; Kuhe; Lamothe; Lang; Lange; Lardner; and Lassen
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- Latour; Lee; Lehar; Leslie; Leybach; Lichner; Lindsay; Linley; Locke; Lover; Luders; and Lumbye
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- MacDowell; and McNaughton
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- Marshall; Mascagni; Mason; Merkel; Metcalf; Millard; Mills; Morse; Moelling; Morrison; Mozart; and Muller
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- Nelson; Newcomb; O'Connor; Oesten; Pacher; Pape; Parker; and Perabo
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- Nevin
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- Perring; Plaidy; Porter; Rachmaninoff; Raff; Richards; Root
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- Rogers Bros.; Römberg; Rotoli; Rubinstein; and Russell
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- Ryder; Scharwenka; Schubert; Schulhoff; Seitz; Shaw; and Smith
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- Sousa
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- Spindler; Strack; (For Sullivan, see Theatrical Series); Thalberg; Thomas; Thompson; Tosti; Tucker; Turner; and Unger
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- von Suppe; Harry and Albert von Tilzer; von Weber; and Voss
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- Waldteufel; and Wallace
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- Weaver; (For Weber & Fields, see Theatrical Series); Webster; Wels; Werline; Whiting; Whittemore; Wilson; and Winner
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- Wollenhaupt; Woodbury; Work; Wyman
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- Miscellaneous minor composers
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- Aldrich; Allen; Bangs; Bayly; Blake; Bolton; Browning; Bryant; Bulwer-Lytton; Bunyan; Burns; Byron; and Coleridge
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- Cooper
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- Dickens
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- Dickinson; D'Israeli; Dobson; Dole; Drake; Drummond; Mary Baker Eddy; Emerson; Field; Fitzgerald; Gilder; Goethe; Goldsmith; Gould; Guiney; Harte; Hay; Hearn; Bishop Heber; and Heine
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- Mrs. Hemans; Herrick; Hogg; Hood; Hope; Hovey; Ben Jonson; Keats; Kemble; and Kilmer
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- Holmes
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- Kipling
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- Lanier; LeGallienne; Linley; Locke; Amy Lowell; James Russell Lowell; Markham; Masefield; George Meredith; Owen Meredith; Miller; Milton; Montgomery; and Morris
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- Longfellow
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- Moore
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- Cardinal Newman; Mrs. Norton; Noyes; O'Reilly; Otis; Poe; Pope; Proctor; Read; Riley; Rossetti; Mrs. Rowson; Father Ryan
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- Schiller; Scott; Shakespeare; and Shelley
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- W. Dexter Smith (Sr. and Jr.); Stevenson; Stodard; Stowe; Swinburne; and Taylor
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- Tennyson
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- Whitman
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- Whittier
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- Teschmacher; Thackeray; Thoreau; Wallace; Ward; Wiggin; Wilcox; Wilde; Woodworth; Wordsworth; and Yeats
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- A - H
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- I - Z and unsorted
This Section has two main categories, the first consisting of types of dances: cakewalks, foxtrots, gallops, marches, mazurkas, minuets, one-steps, polkas, quicksteps, rag time, redowas, schottisches, tangos, tarantellas, two-steps, and waltzes. The largest categories are the waltzes (about 1,000 pieces), marches (250), polkas (over 400), and nearly 350 ragtime tunes.
The second category is devoted to dancers and dance groups, virtually all of which are represented by lithographed portrait title pages. There are about 400 items, showing famous dancers, ensembles, stage scenes and spectacles, and the like.
First category arranged alphabetically by dance style; second category arranged by dancer or group, with major dancers Taglioni & Ellsler at the end.
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- Cakewalk, foxtrot, gallop, habanera
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- March, mazurka
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- March, two-step
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- One-step, polka-redova, schottische, tango, tarantella
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- Polka
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- Quickstep
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- Ragtime
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- Waltz
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- Varsouvienne, Misc., and foreign dance music
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- Dancers
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- Taglioni & Ellsler
Groups worth noting include the Catholic category (by far the largest, boxes 289-290); American Indian category (nearly 150 pieces); and the Irish category (over 300). The “Negro” category contains spirituals and other non-minstrel songs. This section used to include a group of about 100 early American psalm books, hymnals, religious tracts and songsters; these have been cataloged separately.
Organized in the following subseries: Ethnic and Religious.
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- Armenian; Canadian; Cuban; English; French; German; Gypsy; and Greek
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- Irish
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- Irish, Italian, and Jewish
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- American Indian
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- National songs; Negro; Polish; Portuguese; Scandinavian; Scottish; Spanish; and Latin American
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- Catholic: Ave Maria; Regina Coeli; Ave Regina; Alma Redemptoris; and Salve Regina
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- Catholic: Ave Verum; Holy Week; O Salutaris; Tantum Ergo; and Vespers
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- Miscellaneous Religious
The Section has been divided into three parts: an alphabetized selection of minstrel songs, an alphabetical series arranged by particular group or team of minstrels, and a portfolio of rare items. Among the rarities is the very early Massa Georgee Washington and General LaFayette [as sung in character by Mr. Roberts…words and music by Micah Hawkins. NYC: E. Riley, 1824].
There is also an index to composers, available in the Library.
Organized in the following subseries: Minstrel Songs; Minstrels; and Minstrel Rarities.
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- A, B, C
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- D, E, F
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- G, H, I
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- J, K, L, Ma
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- M, N, "O," "Oh," O
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- P, R, S
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- T, U, V, W, Y, Z
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- A, B, Banjo, Bland, Buckley's Serenaders
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- C, Campbell's Congo Melodists
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- Christy, D
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- Delahanty & Hedges, Doc Stader, E. Emerson, Emmet, Ethiopian Serenaders
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- F, G, H, Harmoneons
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- J, Jolson, K, L, Lewis, Lucas, Lions, M
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- N, New Orleans Serenaders, O, Ordway, P
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- Q, R, S, T, Virginia Minstrels, Virginia Serenaders
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- W, Williams & Walker
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- Minstrel Rarities
In this section there are subsections devoted to a variety of categories: national patriotic and military songs, first editions, comic songs, history and politics (including various battles, the West, Indians, etc.), communication and transportation (including railroads, horse cars, oil, the telephone, etc.), and famous people like Jenny Lind and Mark Twain. Nearly fifty items portray the façade of the publishing house or music shop that published or distributed the sheet music.
Arranged in portfolios by topic.
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- Rarities
This section is alphabetized by sport topic: categories include archery, baseball, bicycling, billiards, boating, boxing, cricket and croquet, fishing, football, golf, roller skating, rowing, running, swings and hammocks, and tennis. Baseball and football are the largest categories, having more than sixty items each. The tremendous popularity of bicycling during the last quarter of the 19th century is well reflected in more than fifty pieces.
There is a list of all sheet music available in the "Baseball" folder. See printout in the Library.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
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- Archery; Athletics in general; Baseball; Bicycles and Velocipedes; Billiards; (bullfighting: see Miscellaneous Series); Boating; Boxing and Wrestling; Cricket; and Croquet
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- Fishing; Football; Golf; (ice skating: see Nature and Calendar Series - Winter); Roller skating; Rowing; (sleighing and snow sports: see Nature and Calendar Series - Winter); Swinging (includes hammocks); and Tennis
The famous names of the American stage are represented here; examples include Eddie Cantor, Gilbert and Sullivan, Harrigan and Hart, Al Jolson, Jenny Lind, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lillian Russell, and many more. Driscoll was particularly proud of his collection of Harrigan and Hart songs, which contains more than 200 out of the 230 or so songs that they created.
Other categories include comic songs, female impersonators, musical comedies, musical families, the opera, 19th century singers, covers showing stage scenes, show tunes, playbills, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the Ziegfeld Follies.
Arranged alphabetically by name or topic.
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- Baker Family, Eddie Cantor, First American opera, Female Impersonators
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- Irving Berlin, general
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- Irving Berlin: Musicals, "Music Box Review", and Ziegfeld Follies
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- George M. Cohan
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- Gilbert & Sullivan, Arthur Sullivan
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- Harrigan & Hart
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- Will Hays
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- Hutchinson Family (including Songsheets and The Grave of Bonaparte)
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- Jenny Lind
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- Jenny Lind
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- Jenny Lind - original box
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- Musical families
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- Early Singers (a – z), Musical comedy numbers
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- Miscellany, Adelina and Carlotta Patti
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- Mr. & Mrs. Howard Paul
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- Theatre in general (including F. Boott; Harry Lauder; James Madison; Kerry Mills; Rodgers & Hart/Hammerstein; Lillian Russell; Ted Snyder; "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Weber & Fields; Gus Williams; and "Ziegfeld Follies" (see also Irving Berlin)
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- Show Tunes
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- Comic Songs
Those folders and categories not readily admitted into the other Sections have been alphabetized and grouped here for convenience. There are two subsections: Arrangements (about 800 pieces), and other, arranged alphabetically by topic. Arrangements are pieces for banjo, flute, guitar, mandolin, full orchestra, organ, piano, violin, violin and piano, and vocal. Other song topics include: advertising (130), anacreontic (drinking) songs (120), animals and birds (265), anthologies, auctions, bells, blind people, china and glassware, circus, clocks, cowboy and hillbilly songs, death and burial, fans, fairies and witches, fashions (about 100, including bloomers, bathing costumes, hair, Dolly Varden, the Grecian Bend, etc.),fires (including plates of fire engines, famous Boston, New York, and Philadelphia blazes), games and gambling, juvenile (200) kissing, lighting, and illumination, liquor, musical instruments and musicians (140 depicted), parodies, photographs, photography, proverbs (motto songs), rivers, sea songs (350; including aids to navigation, the Atlantic Cable, naval vessels, pirates, portraits, ships, steamers, wrecks and yachts), secret and fraternal societies (150), silhouettes, spinning and sewing, street scenes and sellers’ cries, students and college songs, tobacco, temperance, and even whistling and yodeling songs.
Organized in the following subseries: Arrangements, and Other.
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- Banjo, Mandolin
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- Guitar
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- Piano, four hands
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- Piano, four hands; Violin
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- Violin & piano, Vocal parts
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- Anacreontic songs (drinking songs)
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- Animals
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- Anthologies
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- Advertising; Auctions; Bathing; Bells; Broadside slips
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- Birds
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- Blind (composers, performers, people, institutions for the, and Blind Tom); Circus (including Aerial, P.T. Barnum, Circus in general, Clowns, Dwarfs, Merle Evans, and Magicians)
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- Cartoonists; Clocks; Cowboys
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- Companion pieces,
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- Death and burial; Driscoll (as a proper name); Early Western imprints; Embossed title pages; Fans; Fairies and witches; and Fashion (Hair, Dolly Varden)
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- Fashion (in general); Fires; Games (including Cards, Dominoes, and Gambling) and Grotesques, typological
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- Juvenile (including "Mary Had a Little Lamb", Nursery rhymes, and pieces of interest to children); Kissing; Lighting and illumination (including Candles, Thomas Edison, Electricity, Radiation, and Street lamps); Liquor; and Money
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- Musical instruments; Parodies; Phonographs and records; Photography; Proverbs, in song; Rivers; and Student songs and songsters
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- Oversize (uncut) music
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- Sea Songs
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- Secret and fraternal societies
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- Silhouettes; Spinning and sewing; Street scenes and peddlers' cries; Swinging; Temperance songs; Tobacco; Topical songs; Whistling; and Yodeling
This section has three subdivisions: British imprints (early London imprints only), Composers (about 500 pieces by European classical composers), and European imprints, which are divided into French music with lithographed title pages, miscellaneous foreign imprints (800), and miscellaneous foreign views (some on music covers, some not). Almost all of the London imprints have been removed and cataloged separately; see Library Online Catalog.
Organized in the following subseries: British Imprints; Composers; and European Imprints.
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- [Early London Imprints - removed and cataloged separately]
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- Early London Imprints
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- Beethoven; Brahms; Chabrier; Chaminade; Chopin; Debussy; del Riego; Dreyschock; Dvorák; Elgar; and Godard
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- Gounod; Grieg; Haydn; Handel; Jadassohn; Jaell; Jensen; and Lee
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- Liszt; Mendelssohn; Meyer-Helmund; Moszowski; Mozart; Nicode; Paderewski
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- Saint-Saëns; Schubert; Schumann; Schütt; Sinding; Staub; Strauss (Johann, Josef, Henry, and Richard); Tchaikowsky; Wieniawski; and Zeller
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- Miscellaneous minor foreign composers
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- Early European imprints; French music with lithographed title pages
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- Misc. foreign imprints, misc. foreign views
Some books originally in this section contained music, but most were reference and historical treatises about music. All books have been cataloged separately and are accessible through the Newberry Online Catalog.