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Alliker Sheet Music Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-002
Scope and Contents
Sampling of various kinds of popular songs arranged for voice and piano, many with guitar, ukulele, and/or banjo chords. Among them: "Till the end of Time" based on Chopin; "Tom Dooley" arranged by Alan Lomax; and "The Waltz You Saved For Me". Many in this collection have markings as if they were used in performance.
Dates:
1920 - 1957
Found in:
Special Collections
Civil War era sheet music volume
Item
Identifier: MS-0565
Scope and Contents
Volume of Civil War era sheet music. Approximately 65 individual compositions.
Dates:
1860s
Found in:
Special Collections
Clements sheet music collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-046
Dates:
1900 - 1950
Found in:
Special Collections
Conrad Gebelein papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0458
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, two scrapbooks and other ephemeral material related to Gebelein's association with the Johns Hopkins University.
Dates:
approximately 1920-2005
Found in:
Special Collections
Friedman Sheet Music
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-MUS-011
Dates:
1986 - 1987
Found in:
Special Collections
Harry S. Dickey collection of Byroniana
Collection
Identifier: MS-0072
Abstract
Harry S. Dickey was a Baltimore business man and collector, who was born in 1891 and received his B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1912. Dickey an admirer of the English poet, Lord Byron. This collection is composed of handwritten letters and poems relating to Byron, as well as published or printed sheet music, engravings, and article clippings. Notably, there are a few handwritten Oscar Wilde letters and poems, as Dickey was a collector of Wilde as well. The collection spans...
Dates:
1815-1959, 1981
Found in:
Special Collections
John C. French collection of sheet music based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-034
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of music inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe--including both vocal settings of Poe's actual text as well as instrumental programmtic pieces more loosely based on a particular work of Poe--dating from 1865 to 1957. There are published and manuscript copies, as well as a few photostatic copies. Especially well-represented are the original manuscripts of Joseph Holbrooke, an English composer working in the first half of the 20th century, whose long-standing...
Dates:
1865 - 1957
Found in:
Special Collections
John Carbonell sheet music collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-0064
Abstract
John Cole was one of the earliest and most prolific sheet music publishers in Baltimore. This collection spanning his publishing career was collected by John Carbonell and subsequently organized by engraving plate number.
Dates:
1824-1838 and undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University assorted sheet music collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-0058
Scope and Contents
This is an artifically assembled collection with sheet music from various origins. Accruals in this collection are selected by the curators of Special Collections or donated by patrons. See component levels for more information about the items in this collection.
Dates:
1770 - 1971
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University collection of Black Americana materials
Collection
Identifier: MS-0844
Abstract
The Johns Hopkins University collection of Black Americana materials spans from approximately 1870 to the 1950s. It is an artificially assembled collection of materials purchased and selected by the curators of Special Collections. The collection primarily consists of postcards, broadsides, and other printed ephemera that depict African American people in ways that are often racist and caricatured.
Dates:
approximately 1870-1950s
Found in:
Special Collections
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