Sheet music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Adolph Schellschmidt collection
Collection
Identifier: L610
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music from Adolph Schellschmidt in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1884 to 1939 regarding music parts for the cello, violin, and piano.
Dates:
1848-1939, undated
Cornelius family collection
Collection
Identifier: L485
Scope and Contents
This collection includes family documents, newspaper clippings, sheet music and songbooks of the Cornelius family of Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1884 to the 2009. The collection contains genealogical documents of the Cornelius family and correspondence, manuscripts, and paste up items regarding the unpublished book "The Cornelius Story: Four Generations of Printers." The collection also includes promotional cards, recital programs, travel guides, and other documents of Melissa Jane...
Dates:
1884-2009
Edna May Green papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2627
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, tear sheets, music copyrights, stock certificates, sheet music, news clippings, songs, poems, other writings, and a photograph from Edna May Green in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1918 to 1954, regarding Edna May Green, her compositions and other works. Correspondants, include Josiah K. Lilly and various music publishers; most correspondence deals with Green's attempts to have her music more widely played and recognized. The tear sheets and...
Dates:
1918-1954
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Edna May Green papers
Flora Gardiner Kling collection
Collection
Identifier: L344
Scope and Contents
The collection includes letters, postcards, photographs, bookplates, ephemera, and scrapbooks received, collected, and compiled by Flora Gardiner Kling in Mount Vernon, Indiana and the United States, ranging from 1881 to 1938, undated, regarding her hobby collecting bookplates, which included soliciting bookplates from various universities, libraries, authors, poets, illustrators, actors, inventors, scientists, politicans, musicians, performers, and private citizens, as well as corresponding...
Dates:
1881-1938
Frances Marvel Gnass collection
Collection
Identifier: L042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items from Frances Marvel Gnass’s family, including Joseph Brown’s ciphering book of mathematical operations and business accounting practices (1840-1843); a promissory note for payment to Isaac Brown (1857), and a page of accounting notations of the Brown family (1869-1877); Edith Walker’s autograph book (1888-1893); and a full-page from the Crawfordsville Journal and Review that lists soldiers buried in Montgomery County, Indiana by...
Dates:
1840-2008
"Indiana" sheet music
Collection — Folder OB101
Identifier: OB101
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music for the song, "Indiana," from Margaretta Brown, Carroll Webster, and Burrell Van Buren from 1940.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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"Indiana" sheet music
John Rugenstein collection
Collection
Identifier: L300
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials assembled by John Rugenstein regarding Wendell Willkie and his U.S. presidential campaign in 1940. Included in this collection is campaign memorabilia such as buttons, literature, poetry, postcards, music, stickers and phonograph records. Also included is the correspondence of the various state and local Willkie Clubs, founded in 1940 to promote and support Willkie in his campaign. These items are divided geographically. There is information on the national...
Dates:
1879-1959
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Rugenstein collection
Marietta Kem sheet music
Collection
Identifier: S0768
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music from Marietta Kem in New Castle, Indiana ranging from 1941 to 1942.
Dates:
1941-1943, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Marietta Kem sheet music
Music collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1628
Scope and Contents
This collection has been divided into three folders. Folder one has information about Diapason Singers who performed at the Main Street Christian Church, Rushville, Indiana, on May 9, 1909. The Diapason class sang on the 100th anniversary of the Missouri Harmony Singers in Morrison. There is a three page typed narrative about the history of "how the Southerners came by their 'fasola' mode of singing." Folder two, labeled Miscellaneous, has brochures, song sheets, and the 1941 annual...
Dates:
1924-1956
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Music collection
Nancy Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: L764
Scope and Contents
This collection includes programs, pamphlets, and other items collected by Nancy Johnson from events she attended and from the Indiana Statehouse Tour Office where her husband Jim volunteered, ranging from 1983 to 2020 and undated. Most of the events, which included government swearing-in and award ceremonies, services, conferences, meetings, and celebrations for historic events and holidays, took place at the Indiana Statehouse. There are also materials about the Indiana Supreme Court and...
Dates:
1983-2020, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Nancy Johnson collection
