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Bruce Kellner Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-91 Series 4
Scope and Contents

967 pieces of sheet music

Dates: 1809-1964

Carl Van Vechten memorial collection of arts and letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-91
Scope and Contents Photographs, sheet music, playbills, prints, publications, sound recordings, programs, souvenir books, correspondence, drawings, broadsides, articles, ephemera, manuscripts, and journal issues relating to the theater, music, dance, and literature.  Although not limited to materials related to African American artists and their works, the collection includes a large number of materials documenting African American artistic endeavors during the early and mid-twentieth century. The collection...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1880-; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1986

The Homespun Dress copyed [sic] by Lewis M. Prall.

 Collection — Box: 1 folder
Identifier: MS-107
Scope and Contents

Transcription of lyrics to the Confederate song "The Homespun Dress" by Carrie Belle Sinclair which Private Lewis M. Prall heard sung while at Carver General Hospital in Washington D. C. Prall transcribed his version of the lyrics from memory on Aug. 4, 1864 while in Christiana, Pa.

Dates: 4 August 1864