Sheet music by and about women, 1794-1945.

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Sheet music by and about women, 1794-1945.

This portion of the collection contains sheet music by women composers and lyricists, and with images of and songs about children, bloomer girls, country girls, cowgirls, bicyclists, World Wars I and II, battered women, marriage, sexuality, double standard, courtship, mothers, education, Salvation Army, the new woman, nurses, pacifism, women's rights, immigrants, housework, woman as symbol, Women's Christian Temperance Union, women in sports, witches, working women (servants, seafarers), Native Americans, fashion, and women as babes/dolls. Composers include Eliza Cook, Mary Earl, Dorothy Forster, Virginia Gabriel, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Anita Owen, Dorothy R. Parker, Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst, Gertrude Martin Rohrer, Mary Turner Salter, Mary Dana Shindler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and Septimus Winner.

7199 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7411418

Penn State Harrisburg Library

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Salvation Army

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army</a>. From the guide to the Salvation Army Combined Corps Roll and Ledger, 1926-1980, 1928-1969, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Marshall, Alice K.

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Gabriel, Virginia, 1825-1877

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English composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed as Virginia March (2) : [London, n.d., ca. 1875?], to Mr. [Joseph] Bennett, [n.d., ca. 1875?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577586 From the description of Letter [1874?] May 25, 5 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, S. W. [London] to [Sir William Sterndale?] Bennett [London?] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34370429 British composer. From the description of "Se mi perdi oh...

Salter, Mary Turner

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Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889

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Eliza Cook, English poet and journalist. Cook began publishing her poetry in the 1830's, and in 1849 she started a weekly magazine directed at working class women, called Eliza Cook's Journal. From the description of Eliza Cook manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1850's (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 124208251 From the guide to the Eliza Cook manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1850's, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and Hi...

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835

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Felicia Hemans was one of the first successful female English career poets. For a brief time, she was the most popular and acclaimed poet writing in England. Mrs. Hemans embodies a significant transition in English poetry from Romantic lyricism to the moral and patriotic themes prevalent in the Victorian era. From the description of Felicia Hemans letters and poems, 1825, n.d. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50039596 Felicia Dorothea Browne Hem...

Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs.

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Parkhurst was a composer and lyricist active during the middle of the 19th century. From the description of A vision of the spirit world : the prophecies and fulfillments : manuscript, not before 1865. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 731350344 ...

Parker, Dorothy R. (Dorothy Ragon), 1927-

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Researcher, writer and retired professor of history, Eastern New Mexico University. From the description of Dorothy Parker papers, 1976-1991, 1990-1991. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 41591828 New Mexico history professor and author of Singing an Indian song: a biography of D'Arcy McNickle (1992). From the description of Dorothy R. Parker D'Arcy McNickle research papers, 1863-1989 (bulk 1904-1989). (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 5010259...

Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946

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Carrie Jacobs-Bond, a native of Wisconsin, lived in Chicago, Illinois about 1895-1920. She was a musician, composer and lyricist of sentimental songs, and music publisher. She moved to California in 1920. From the description of Papers, 1939. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 85582219 Composer, of Iron River, Mich. (1889-1896), Janesville, Wis., Chicago, Ill., and California. From the description of Carrie Jacobs-Bond estate and museum c...

Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902

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American composer, teacher, and publisher. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], 1895 Aug. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910518 ...

Rohrer, Gertrude Martin, 1875-1968

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Gertrude Martin Rohrer, Geneva College Class of 1896, was a poet, author, playwright and composer of popular songs, including the Pennsylvania State Song, "Pennsylvania." From the description of The Gertrude Martin Rohrer Collection. 1904-1957. (Gettysburg College). WorldCat record id: 45568837 ...

Forster, Dorothy, 1884-1950

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Home" [Johnstown Center, Wisconsin], to "Dear Hattie", 1872? Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587512 From the description of Papers of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1884-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083828 Popular poet and Theosophist. Wilcox was born in Wisconsin and began writing poetry at an early age. Among her best-known works are "Poems of passion," "Poem...

Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Shindler, Mary Dana, 1810-1883

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Author. Born Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer. Full name: Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer Dana Shindler. From the description of Mary Dana Shindler signature, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980450 Author, poet, and composer of Charleston, S.C., and descendant of the Palmer familiy of Beaufort District, S.C.; Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer Dana wrote this letter years before her 1848 marriage to Episcopal minister Robert Doyne Shindler (1814-1874), under whose name she is known today; ...