The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at the Johns Hopkins University



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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	SONGSTERS (143 volumes) These volumes range in date from the early 18th century to the 1880s, and include some church music. Songsters containing the "Anacreontic Song" and "The Star Spangled Banner" are of considerable interest. Some unusual songsters are Kentucky Harmony of 1826; Social Harmony by Asahel Benham of 1798; and Complete Modern Songster, Philadelphia, 1806, the only known complete copy. An amusing item is Pills To Purge Melancholy, in 6 volumes, London, 1719–20. << Back \| Next >>

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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	SONGSTERS (143 volumes) These volumes range in date from the early 18th century to the 1880s, and include some church music. Songsters containing the "Anacreontic Song" and "The Star Spangled Banner" are of considerable interest. Some unusual songsters are Kentucky Harmony of 1826; Social Harmony by Asahel Benham of 1798; and Complete Modern Songster, Philadelphia, 1806, the only known complete copy. An amusing item is Pills To Purge Melancholy, in 6 volumes, London, 1719–20. << Back \| Next >>

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