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Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s

Sheet music reveals much about public opinion and the social and political issues of pre-1923 America. By making this collection available digitally, scholars worldwide will have the ability to study the history of the United States from a unique perspective. Digitizing the sheet music will also help preserve this material since much of the music is in poor and fragile condition. Funding was requested for a pilot project to digitize 40 items of sheet music from a large collection of pre-1923 sheet music. For more information, refer to the final report

Submissions from 1906 1906

Clover Blossoms, Floyd Thompson and Will Rossiter

Submissions from 1905 1905

Dearie, Clare Kummer and Jos. W. Stern & Co

I'm On My Way To Dublin Bay, Stanley Murphy and Jerome H. Remick & Co

Submissions from 1904 1904

Nesting In A New York Tree, George M. Cohan and F. A. Mills

Philosophy, David Emmell and B. F. Wood Music Co

Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming, Stephen C. Foster, WM. Dressler, and William A. Pond & Co

My Ain Folk (A Ballad of Home), Wilfrid Mills, Laura G. Lemon, and Boosey & Co

Submissions from 1903 1903

My Task, E L. Ashford, Maude Louise Ray, S. H. Pickup, and Lorenz Publishing Co.

Dear Old Girl, Richard Henry Buck, Theodore Morse, and Theodore Morse Music Co.

Mother O' Mine!, Rudyard Kipling, Frank E. Tours, and Chappelle & Co

Submissions from 1901 1901

When God Puts Out The Light, Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son

Submissions from 1900 1900

If No One Ever Marries Me, Laurence Alma Tadema, Liza Lehmann, and Boosey & Co.

Submissions from 1897 1897

Danny Deever, Walter Damrosch, Rudyard Kipling, and The John Church Company

Submissions from 1895 1895

A Dream (Songs by J.C. Bartlett), J. C. Bartlett, Charles B. Cory, and Oliver Ditson Company

Submissions from 1894 1894

Forgotten, Oliver Ditson Company

Submissions from 1893 1893

Dream Lullaby, National Music Company

Submissions from 1892 1892

The Holy City, Stephen Adams and Boosey & Co

The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Tell Me, Do You Love Me), R. M. Stults and Oliver Ditson Company

The Holy City, F. E. Weatherly, Stephen Adams, and Boosey & Co

Submissions from 1848 1848

Buena Vista Polka, Antonio Barili and A. Fiot

The Warlike Dead in Mexico, C. Holt Jr.

Submissions from 1846 1846

Gen. Worth's Quick Step, T. Bissell and Wm. H. Oakes

Storming of Monterey, Francis Buck and F. D. Benteen

Grand Triumphant March in the Battle of Palo Alto (Palo Alto Grand March), Thomas H. Chambers, S. W. Bassford, and Wm. Vanderbeek

Major Ringold's Funeral March, Osbourn's Music Saloon