Selected Historical Collections from American Memory, the Nation's Digital Library

Selected Historical Collections of Music from
American Memory, the Nation's Digital Library

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. To visit this site click here.

The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990

African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University

An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

Band Music from the Civil War Era

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.

Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942

Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885

Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War, from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950

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  Dr. W. Dan Hardin, Music Librarian
  Last Updated: January, 2002