Collection Items

  • Notated Music
    The lonely rose : set to music for soprano solo and chorus of women's voices with pianoforte accompaniment, op. 43 Holograph. Chorus: SSAA. Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Marston, Philip Bourke - A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress) - Lang, Margaret Ruthven
    • Date: 1906

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  • Audio Recording
    A Southern belle Banjo solo sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 11 in. | Sound Recording (Form). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Ossman, Vess L. - American Record Company
    • Date: 1906
  • Audio Recording
    He's a cousin of mine sound recording | 1 sound disc: analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 10 in. | Mx: 3536 -3-3. M-1225-3 Recorded c.October 1906 Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Smith, [Chris] - Hein, [Silvio] - Columbia - Williams, Bert
    • Date: 1906
  • Audio Recording
    All in out and down sound recording | 1 sound disc: analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. | Mx: 30039 -2, vinyl test pressing Recorded c. Sep. 26, 1906 Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Smith - Columbia - Macpherson - Williams, Bert
    • Date: 1906
  • Book/Printed Material
    A history of dancing St. Johnston claims that his book fills a gap in the documentation of dance history and confesses he knows of only three books on the subject, those by Gaston Vuillier, Edward Scott, and John Weaver. The work contains much of the same information found in numerous other historiographies of the era. The author considers the birth of stage dancing to be Kate Vaughan's "Skirt...
    • Contributor: St.-Johnston, Reginald
    • Date: 1906

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  • Book/Printed Material
    Masquerades, tableaux and drills This manual provides step-by-step instructions, augmented by numerous illustrations, for giving masquerades, conducting tableaux, and creating "fancy drills." Costumes, hair styles, and accessories are included for Calico and Martha Washington balls, Joan of Arc, a football player, Beau Brummel, and a shepherdess. Additionally, the manual provides suggestions for tableaux scenes and living pictures ("pose plastique").
    • Contributor: Butterick Publishing Company
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Dos lied fun'm loin-shklav sheet music | 8 p. ; 35 cm. | "The song of the slave for wages." Winchevsky was a Yiddish journalist and poet who wrote about the difficult economic struggles of the immigrants. Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Platon Brounoff - Brounoff, Platon - Winchevsky, Morris
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Die goldene hochzeit sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "The wedding anniversary" from the operetta with the same name. Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Theodore Lohr - Tomashefsky, Boris
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Pauken sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "Drum beats" from "The golden anniversary." "Beat the kettledrum, sound an alarm, and let everyone know that Jews are suffering in Russia. Send help!" Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General). "from Die Goldene Hochzeit" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Theodore Lohr
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Uptown and downtown sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "Uptown and downtown (in New York City)." "The rich are uptown with Rockefeller, and the poor are downtown where it's too crowded for any Rockefeller in the tenements." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General). Smulewitz, Solomon = Small, Solomon, 1868-1943 (Statement Of Responsibility). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Small, Solomon - Theodore Lohr - Brody, Joseph - Kamenetzky, Jacob
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Kol Isroel chaverim sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "All Jews are friends/comrades" from "The great Jew." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Gilrod, Louis - Theodore Lohr - Meyerowitz, David - Kamenetzky, Jacob
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Die frau is a held sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "The woman is heroic" from "The Jew in the times of Sabiesky." "She does so much for others. Men may rule the world, but there can be no greater heroism, nor valor, than that of a woman." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Smulewitz, Solomon = Small, Solomon, 1868-1943 (Statement Of Responsibility)....
    • Contributor: Small, Solomon - Wohl, Herman - Theodore Lohr - Perlmutter, Arnold
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Der talles sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "The prayer shawl" from "The Jew in the times of Sabiesky." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Smulewitz, Solomon = Small, Solomon, 1868-1943 (Statement Of Responsibility). "from Der Yud in Sabiesky's Zeiten" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Small, Solomon - Wohl, Herman - Theodore Lohr - Perlmutter, Arnold
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Dus keitele sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | "The little chain" from "And we decalre the mighty holiness of this day (Jewish New Year/Rosh Hashanah)." "Bind me, beloved, with a little chain of love (marriage ring). We will be together forever." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Mogulesco, S. (Sigmund) - Hebrew Publishing Co
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Das emese Yidishe harz sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "The true Jewish heart; it's not in outward appearances, but in the soul, in true faith and love of God" from "The quiet/secret wedding." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Smulewitz, Solomon = Small, Solomon, 1868-1943 (Statement Of Responsibility). "from Die Stille Chasune" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Wohl, Herman - Small, Solomon - Perlmutter, Arnold - Hebrew Publishing Co
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Dos beigele sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "The hard biscuit/curved cracknel/bagel" from "Bridegroom and bride." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). "from the opera Choson Kale" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Hebrew Publishing Co
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Die sisse hofenung sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | "The sweet hope" from "Bridegroom and Bride." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). "from the opera Choson Kale" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Hebrew Publishing Co
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Hot rachmunes, der pogrom in Russland In Remembrance of the Heroes, Self Defenders in Russia sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | "Have compassion/pity, (for the victims of) the pogroms in Russia." "Brothers have pity. Give shrouds for the dead, and bread to the living." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Spector, Getter & Co - Frug, Samuel - Spector, Nathan L.
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Eil molei rachmim sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "Lord, God of mercy" from "The seminary student, or the Jewish Hamlet." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). "from Jeshiwe Bochur, oder der Yiddisher Hamlet" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Hebrew Publishing Co - Tomashefsky, Boris
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Kadish sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | "Prayer for the dead" from "The seminary student, or the Jewish Hamlet." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). "from Jeshiwe Bochur, oder der Yiddisher Hamlet" (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Friedsell, Louis - Hebrew Publishing Co - Tomashefsky, Boris
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Sei nit gefallen mein sindele sheet music | 3 p. ; 35 cm. | "Do not stumble/falter, my little son" from "My people's dream." (Also, "The dream of my people".) "Israel, little child of God, know that He is ever with you. Do not stumble, but be steadfast." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Violin part (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Rumshinsky, Joseph - S. Goldberg - Meyerowitz, David
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Schenkt a neduwe and Wiede sheet music | 6 p., 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. | "Make a donation" and "Confessional prayer." These two songs were generally performed at theaters for charity collections to aid victims of pogroms in Russian East Europe. Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Hebrew Publishing Company - Wohl, Herman - Perlmutter, Arnold
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Steh auf mein folk sheet music | 4 p. ; 35 cm. | "Arise my people" from "Dr. Almasada." "Arise, awake from your dreaming. The morning sky is fresh and clear. All is alive with wisdom and hope. It is a new time, my people." Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General). Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Hebrew Publishing Company - Goldfaden, Abraham - Russotto, H. - Rumshinsky, Joseph
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Oriental dance sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: R. Markowitz - Arnstein, Ira B.
    • Date: 1906

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  • Notated Music
    Chanson Russe sheet music | 6 p. ; 35 cm. | Sheet Music (Form).
    • Contributor: Smith, Sydney - A. Goldberg - Svet, Mandel
    • Date: 1906

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