![Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music]. Dan Bryant](/pictures/thumb/007954.jpg?v=1465418748)
New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. Early Civil War music with a terrific cover showing five black misfit volunteers in various milita and zouave uniforms. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an... More about Abraham's Daughter, or Raw Recruits [Sheet Music
New York: Charles Magnus (Branch Office, Washington D.C, circa 1863. Unbound. Song sheet titles included in Magnus multi-color illustrated “Series No. 1.” song sheet booklets vary. This one contains: Taking Up Quarters, The Prisoner’s Hope (Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), While there’s Life there’s Hope, The Soldier’s Dream/The Soldier’s Team, Parody of..... More about Magnus Song Sheet Booklet: Six Military and Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. ...
New York: Wm A. Pond, 1865. Unbound. 6 pages including the cover. Light wear and toning; two small ghosts at top margin of cover. On April 15, 1865, after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, his body was carried by an honor guard to the White House. There... More about Funeral March Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln . . . Played at the Obsequies of the...
[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his... More about I'm Off to Charleston
New York: Firth, Pond & Co, 1853. First Printing. Sheet Music. First printing of Stephen Foster's classic minstrel song, "Old Dog Tray." Meets all points listed on pp 39-40 of Whittlesey and Sonneck including the ornamental border and song No. 18 listed below Foster's name. 6 pages including the cover... More about Old Dog Tray (Sheet Music
![Major Anderson's Grand March [Sheet Music]. Charles Grobe](/pictures/thumb/007104.jpg?v=1465418721)
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. Unlisted. Sheet Music. Complete. 6 pages including cover. Cover features a large portrait of Major Robert Anderson, the Commander of Fort Sumter. Clean with only light wear. Once bound. Slight tobacco odor. An early Civil War patriotic march published shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter. More about Major Anderson's Grand March [Sheet Music
New York: New York: Jos. W. Stern and M. Witmark respectively, 1919. Unbound. Both pieces of sheet music measure 9.25” x 12.25”. Four pages each including the covers. The cover of Mirandy features a large portrait half-tone photo of Jim Europe in uniform and a smaller cameo of Noble Sissel... More about Two pieces of sheet music—Mirandy and On Patrol in No Man’s Land—as performed by the 360th...
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1862. First Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages including the cover. Portrait illustration of Sprague on the front cover. Once bound so slightly trimmed with a rough left edge. Light wear and soiling. Small owner's stamp in upper right corner of the cover. William Sprague was the... More about Governor Sprague's Grand March - Sheet Music
New York: Dick’s Pub. House, Circa 1893-1894. Wraps. Softcover pamphlet with 16 unnumbered pages. Pink cover features a wood engraving of Lone Star Harry. Toned pages, otherwise in very nice shape with a tiny chip to the lower fore-edge corner. Lone Star Harry’s given name is unrecorded, although the pamphlet..... More about Lone Star Harry: American Representative Scout
New York: Jos. W. Stern, 1902. First Edition. Sheet Music. 8 pages including the cover. Clean; no splits or tape. Some minor cover wear including tiny closed marginal tears. Owner's name on front cover. Long before he wrote the classic fictional autobiography, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," James Weldon... More about Under the Bamboo Tree - Sheet Music
Germany or Pennsylvania Dutch Country: 1930s. Hardcover. This 4.5” x 6” hardcover notebook contains 140 pages of both traditional and folk songs—music and lyrics--many related to camping or hiking. 55 of the songs are German, nine are American, and three are French. There is an index in the rear. Exceptionally... More about Hand-written and hand-illustrated folksong book with music and lyrics in both German and English
New York: W. H. Murphy, Circa 1846. Cardboard covers. Approximately 3" x 4.5". The cover features a humorous wood engraving of Handy Andy, the blundering servant of and English squire in a very popular bawdy, slapstick novel of the same name published in 1842. Complete with the usual irregular pagination... More about Handy Andy's Budget of Songs
New York: Firth, Pond & Co, 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. An uncommon piece of sheet music honoring Colonel E. E. Ellsworth that features a full-length portrait in the center of the front cover surrounded by eight detailed vignettes. From a privately bound home collection so with a rough left... More about A Requiem in Memory of Ellsworth (Sheet Music
Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Andrew Whitney, 1856. First Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages including cover. Portrait illustration of Robinson on the front cover. Very light dampstain along the fore-edge margin. Charles L. Robinson was an abolitionist leader who settled in Lawrence and worked for the New England Emigrant Aid Society, which transported... More about Gov. Robinson's Polka - Sheet Music
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Color lithograph edition (Ellsworth standing on a Confederate flag) of Winner's tribute to the first hero of the Civil War. From a privately bound home collection so rough edge. 8 pages including the lithograph/wrapper... More about Col. Ellsworth's Funeral March; Composed & Respectfully Dedicated to Francis E. Brownell Esq....
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete: 6 pages including the cover. The cover shows a white overseer, whip in hand, threatening four young male slaves. Slightly trimmed and with nice corners and old tape binding so probably from an old bound collection of sheet music. No... More about The Contraband Schottische - Sheet Music
Cleveland (Also New York, Detroit, and Chicago): S. Brainard & Company (Also S. T. Gordon, D. S. Amsden, and Root & Cady), 1862. First Edition. Sheet Music. Complete with six pages including the cover. Light soiling and wear with a couple of short closed marginal tears. Old tape repair to... More about The Soldier to His Mother: Ballad (Two Alternate Titles: On the Field of Battle, Mother and Just...
