American Song Sheet Clippings. 1888-1892 (bulk).

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. American Song Sheet Clippings. 1888-1892 (bulk).

American Song Sheet Clippings. 1888-1892 (bulk).

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The collection consists of seventeen pages holding clippings from unidentified newspapers, though most likely Philadelphia and New York papers. The clippings are from the nineteenth century and are mostly undated, though some are marked as 1888 and 1892. The pages were removed from a folio album that once held a collection of song sheets. The clippings cover all types of popular American songs and ballads, including military songs, sea shanties, campaign songs, plantation songs, street ballads, and camp meeting songs. Also included are articles on composers including Elizabeth Paine-Milbank, Hope Temple, Effie Channing, Charles A. White, Gussie L. Davis, Fred N. Crouch, Felix M'Glennon, J.M. Barrie, Victor Nessler, Henry C. Work, and the composer of "Maryland, My Maryland!," Mrs. H. Newell Martin (nee Hettie Cary) of Baltimore. One clipping from the New York Times is dated February 28, 1892, and relates the story of "Kelley the Song Man," a Confederate spy who gathered information while selling music in Union camps during the Civil War. The final three pages are a title index to the song sheets once in the folio album, which can now be found in the American Song Sheet collection.

1 box 21 p.

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