Related Resources on the World Wide Web
Other Collections of Sheet Music in American Memory
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
This collection consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. This large collection has been digitized from microfilm. Brief catalog records have been created for each piece.
"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
More than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music form this collection. The collection spans the years from Lincoln's presidential campaign in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909. This music was compiled by Alfred Whital Stern (1881-1960), who is considered the greatest private collector of materials relating to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Transcriptions of the lyrics are displayed with the bibliographic information.
Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
A 1996/97 winner in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, this collection includes over 3,000 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music. The pieces selected have been reproduced from the originals in color and cataloged in great detail, with subject terms describing illustrations and advertisements in addition to the musical content.
American Memory Collections with Recordings of Popular Songs
- The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
- Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Other Collections Illustrating the African-American Experience
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
On the World Wide Web Beyond the Library of Congress
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Online Collections of Sheet Music
- Sheet Music: A Window on 19th-Century California (University of California, Berkeley)
- The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)
Other Resources Related to Sheet Music
- Song Index (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Popular Song Database (University of Washington)
- Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
- Florida Sheet Music Collection Guide (University of South Florida, Tampa Campus Library)
- Catalog of Music Special Collections (University of North Texas)
- Donald MacLaren Simmons Sheet Music Collection (Kent State University)
- MLA Sheet Music Information (Duke University)
African-American Music
- Center For Black Music Research (Columbia College, Chicago)
- Archives of African-American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
- Early Recordings of African Americans / Early Ragtime
African-American Musicians and Performers
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Archive (Wright State University)
- Lieutenant James Reese Europe: Songs Brought Back from the Battlefield
- James P. Johnson
- King Oliver
- Mamie Smith
- Eva Taylor
- Clarence Williams
The Minstrel Show
- Blackface Minstrelsy (from Mark Twain and His Times at the University of Virginia)
- Dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds
- Daniel Decatur Emmet & the American Minstrel (PBS: I Hear America Singing)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Uncle Tom's Cabin. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. (transcription at University of Virginia)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, Conn.)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (A Celebration of Women Writers)
- Harrier Beecher Stowe (PBS: I Hear America Singing)
Other Resources Related to this Collection
- Stephen Foster (PBS: I Hear America Singing)
- Stephen Collins Foster
An Address by John Tasker Howard. Made at the Annual Stephen Foster Memorial Program in Carnegie Music Hall on 13 January 1934 from The Pittsburgh Record, March 1934. (Carnegie Public Library) - May Irwin (27 June 1862 - 22 October 1938)
- See "Jazz" and "Blues" in the All Music Guide
- Tom Morgan's Jazz and Blues
- The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930
- Tap Dance Reference Page from the Tap Dance Homepage web site