Collection Items

  •
    Notated Music
    I bring you heartsease : (trio) Holograph. For chorus (SSA) with piano. Composed in F major. In ink, with additions and corrections in pencil. Upper left corner, "Octavo Press (Women's Voices) no. 678" and lower left corner, "A.P.S. 10819" in ink. Copyright dates stamped on bottom center of [1] p.: 1915 and 1916 and the Arthur P. Schmidt Co. With: I bring you heartsease (G major).
    • Contributor: Branscombe, Gena
    • Date: 1916

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    In Arcady by moonlight : for women's voices
    Publisher's version: In Arcady by moonlight : (trio)     Holograph. For chorus (SSA) with piano. Caption title. Subtitle "for women's voices" crossed out in pencil and changed "(trio)" in pencil. "Octavo series (Women's voices)"--Upper left corner in pencil. Copyright dates in pencil on bottom center of [1] p.: copyright 1913 by Arthur P. Schmidt; copyright 1914 by Arthur P. Schmidt.
    • Contributor: Banning, Kendall - Branscombe, Gena
    • Date: 1914

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    Ol' Marse Winter : (trio)
    Ol' Marse Winter : for women's voices     Holograph. For chorus (SSA) with piano. Caption title. Subtitle "for women's voices" crossed out in in ink. In ink, with additions and corrections in pencil. "Octavo series (Women's voices)"--Upper left corner in ink "A.P.S. 10453"--Lower left corner in ink. Copyright dates in ink at bottom center of [1] p.: copyright 1914 by Arthur P. Schmidt, International copyright secured.
    • Contributor: Ogden, Mary Alice - Branscombe, Gena
    • Date: 1914

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    The morning wind : (trio)
    The morning wind : for womens voices     Holograph. For chorus (SSA) with piano. Caption title. Subtitle "for women's voices" crossed out in pencil and changed "(trio)" in pencil. "Octavo series (women's voices)"--Upper left corner in pencil. Copyright dates in pencil on bottom center of [1] p.: copyright 1913 by Arthur P. Schmidt; copyright 1914 by Arthur P. Schmidt.
    • Contributor: Banning, Kendall - Branscombe, Gena
    • Date: 1914

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    Elfin song Holograph. For chorus (SSAA) and piano. Caption title. "To S.L. Herrman and the Treble Clef Club, Philadelphia." Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1910. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield) - Drake, Joseph Rodman - A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    Inconstancy Holograph. For chorus (SSAA) and optional piano. Caption title. "To S.L. Herrman and the Treble Clef Club, Philadelphia." Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1910. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield) - A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress) - Shakespeare, William
    • Date: 1910

    Resource: View All Images

  • Notated Music
    The voice of my beloved : three-part song for women's voices with accompaniment for two violins and pianoforte Holograph. For chorus (SSA), 2 violins, and piano. At head of title: No. II. Published: Boston : A.P. Schmidt, 1911. Accompanied by revisions in the form of holograph partial page overlays, as well as photocopies of pages with overlays in place. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Daniels, Mabel W. (Mabel Wheeler) - A.P. Schmidt Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1911

    Resource: View All Images

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Photograph of Captain Pearl R. Nye in Akron, OH.
    • Date: 1913
  • Audio Recording
    The aba daba honeymoon sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Leo Feist Inc., 1914; renewed by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan, July 10, 1942. Cutout date: 11/21/1927. On label: baritone and tenor, orchestra accompaniment. Coupling date: 10/26/1914. (Venue). With (reverse side): My croony melody / Billy Murray and chorus. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound...
    • Contributor: Fields, Arthur - Edison - Donovan, Walter - Harlan, Byron G. - Collins, Arthur
    • Date: 1914
  • Audio Recording
    At the ball that's all sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Remick Music Corp., 1913/Jerry Vogel Music Co., Inc. Cutout date: 11/21/1927. Chorus finale from Hill's musical 'My Friend from Kentucky' (1913), interpolated into the author's 'Darktown Follies' (1914) and into the 'Ziegfeld Follies of 1913.' Coupling date: 6/22/1915. (Venue). With (reverse side): At the Yiddish wedding jubilee / Maurice...
    • Contributor: Tally, Harry - Edison - Mayo, Harry - Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie)
    • Date: 1915
  • Audio Recording
    Gasoline Gus and his jitney bus sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor and chorus. Coupling date: 8/4/1915. (Venue). With (reverse side): Aunt Dinah's golden wedding / Empire Vaudeville Company. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Edison - Murray, Billy
    • Date: 1915
  • Audio Recording
    I've been floating down the old green river sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, 1915/Mills Music Inc., 1943.t. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor with orchestra. The song was introduced by Florence Moore in "Maid in America" (1915). Coupling date: 1/31/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): Cohen at the telephone / George Thompson. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form)....
    • Contributor: Kalmar, Bert - Edison - Cooper, Joe - Murray, Billy - Cooper, Joseph
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    My mother's rosary sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, 1915/Mills Music Inc. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor with orchestra. Coupling date: 3/27/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): There's a long long trail / George Ballard and chorus. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Van Brunt, Walter - Lewis, Sam L. - Edison - Meyer, George W.
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    There's a long, long trail sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor and chorus with orchestra. Written in 1913 by two seniors at Yale. Coupling date: 3/27/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): My mother's rosary / Walter Van Brunt. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Edison - King, Stoddard - Ballard, George Wilton - Elliott, Zo
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    Are you from Dixie? ('cause I'm from Dixie, too) sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor and chorus with orchestra. Coupling date: 6/8/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): Don't bite the hand that's feeding you / Walter Van Brunt. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Yellen, Jack - Edison - Murray, Billy - Cobb, George L.
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    Don't bite the hand that's feeding you sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor with orchestra. Coupling date: 6/8/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): Are you from Dixie? ('cause I'm from Dixie too) / Billy Murray and chorus. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Van Brunt, Walter - Hoier, Thomas - Edison - Morgan, Jimmie - Hoier, Thomas P.
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    Madelon (I'll be true to the whole regiment) sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Remick Music Corp., 1918. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: baritone and male voices with orchestra. French words by Louis Bousquet. Coupling date: 1/15/1919. (Venue). With (reverse side): Till we meet again / Gladys Rice, Vernon Dalhart. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound...
    • Contributor: Robert, Camille - Fields, Arthur - Edison - Bryan, Alfred
    • Date: 1919
  • Audio Recording
    The preacher and the bear sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: 1904; Lewis Music Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: baritone with orchestra. Coupling date: 2/15/1919. (Venue). With (reverse side): Coon 'possum hunt / Billy Golden, Billy Heins. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Collins, Arthur - Edison - Arizonia, Joe
    • Date: 1919
  • Audio Recording
    I'm forever blowing bubbles sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Copyright: Remick Music Corp., 1919. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: contralto and tenor with orchestra. "Jean Kenbrovin" is a combined pseudonym for James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent. Coupling date: 4/10/1919. (Venue). With (reverse side): In the old sweet way / Helen Clark, George Ballard. DLC Sound Recording (Form)....
    • Contributor: Kenbrovin, Jaan - Edison - Clark, Helen - Kellette, John William - Ballard, George Wilton
    • Date: 1919
  • Audio Recording
    Keep the home fires burning
    Keep the home fires burning     sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: baritone and male chorus with orchestra. Coupling date: 12/23/1915. (Venue). With (reverse side): My bugler boy / Helen Clark. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Edison - Novello, Ivor - Wheeler, Frederick
    • Date: 1916
  • Audio Recording
    Lorraine (My beautiful Alsace-Lorraine)
    My beautiful Alsace-Lorraine     From Edison records catalog: Did you know that for nearly forty years, since Germany took Alsace-Lorraine from France, a monument to it has stood in Paris, draped in black, and every year adorned with flowers? It is the land France has never ceased to mourn and is probably the only territory she hopes to gain by the war. Fred Fisher has been very clever...
    • Contributor: Fisher, Fred - Edison - Bryan, Alfred - Dalhart, Vernon
    • Date: 1918
  • Audio Recording
    The trumpet shall sound--Messiah
    Messiah Trumpet shall sound | Trumpet shall sound | Messiah     sound recording | 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. | Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: Recitative and Air, bass solo with trumpet obligato and orchestra. Coupling date: 2/3/1916. (Venue). With (reverse side): I know that my redeemer liveth--Messiah / Julia Heinrich. DLC Sound Recording (Form). Electronic Resource (Form). Remote (Form). Sound Recording (Form). Sound Disc (Form).
    • Contributor: Edison - Middleton, Arthur - Handel, George Frideric
    • Date: 1916
  • Book/Printed Material
    Asa Willcox's book of figures, 1793; multigraphed from a manuscript in the possession of the Newberry Library
    Book of figures     Based on an original manuscript published in 1793 and located in Chicago's Newberry Library, this modern version notes that the "spelling, capitalization, punctuation and underlining of the original have been scrupulosly followed, occasionally at the expense of clearness" (pg. ii). The manuscript contains one- or two-sentence descriptions of figures for thirty-eight country dances (dances that consisted of a series of figures and danced by...
    • Contributor: Newberry Library - Willcox, ASA
    • Date: 1918

    Resource: View All Pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Tips to dancers," good manners for ballroom and dance hall, This small manual is aimed at a non-urban population and, although it contains substantial sections on etiquette and the value of good manners, the only dances mentioned by Dewey are the one step and foxtrot. Advice includes "A man should not try to dance in his stiff, heavy, working shoes," and admonishments to remove chewing gum from the pockets so "you will not be...
    • Contributor: Dewey, V. Persis (Vivian Persis)
    • Date: 1918

    Resource: View All Pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The public dance halls of Chicago
    Dance halls of Chicago     This is a revised edition of a work based on an investigation done in 1910 regarding the conditions of public dance halls in Chicago. Bowen's complaints included the late hours, too much liquor, and the general behavior of men noting, "... men wear their hats; they all smoke and expectorate freely." She also suggests the waiters and other employees provide information on the location...
    • Contributor: Bowen, Louise De Koven
    • Date: 1917

    Resource: View All Pages