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|| About the Collection ||
The Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection consists of music manuscripts, papers, photographs, and other materials relating to the personal and professional life of American sentimental song composer Carrie Jacobs Bond (1862-1946). Mrs. Bond is known primarily as a composer of popular sentimental songs such as “I Love You Truly” (1901) and “God Remembers When the World Forgets” (1913). However, she was also a prolific writer of poems, prose sketches, children’s books and film scripts as well as a businesswoman running a successful publishing house. The collection is rich in music manuscripts as well as business and personal papers.
|| Collection Details ||
General
- Span Dates
- 1896-1944
- Major Language(s)
- English
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Physical Collection
- Number of Items
- 1,050
- Number of Containers
- 11
- Linear Feet
- 7
- Contents
- 37 music manuscripts (18 holographs), poetic and prose sketches, typescripts of children's books and scripts, correspondence, business papers relating to Jacobs-Bond's printing business, photographs, and clippings
- Processing History
- Processed, 1992
- Provenance
- Given to the Library by Mrs. Bond’s granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Maiden, over a two year period beginning in 1982.
Access/Copyright
- Access Permissions
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- Copyright Info
- Status of literary rights and copyrights is unknown.
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Preferred Citation
- Carrie Jacobs Bond Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
