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Popular sheet music published in the 1800s for solo piano, dated 1877-1878, and 1889-1898. One piece, Elfin Dance, composed by F.G. Rathbun, is missing the cover page.

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Popular sheet music published in the 1800s for piano and voice, dated 1873 and 1895-1899. One piece, Ma Genuine African Blonde, by George R. Wilson, is incomplete. Two of the pieces' covers have notes or names written on them.

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Popular sheet music published 1900-1904 for solo piano. One piece, The Runaway Darkie, by George P. Lowe, is incomplete. My Old Kentucky Home, by Stephen C. Foster, also contains an insert for violin solo. The Merry Sleighing Party, by Eugene Walters, is annotated with many of the notes written in.

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Popular sheet music published 1901-1904 for piano and voice. One piece, If I Were the Man in the Moon, has a handwritten note on the cover.

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Popular sheet music published 1905-1909 for solo piano. Also includes a teaching book, School of Scales & Double Notes for the Pianoforte, by M. Moszkowski, which has notes written around some of the exercises.

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Popular sheet music published 1905-1907 for piano and voice. One piece, What a Little Smoke Will Do (Consequences), by Aubrey Stauffer and Al G. Coney, has a written note on the front.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: A collection of sheet music from George Novotny from his time working as a vaudeville musician. The pieces were all published between 1873 and 1957. Most were written for piano or piano and voice, but many later pieces have chord parts for guitar or ukulele, expressed in diagrams, symbols, or both. There are also two teaching books for piano technique.Many pieces have one of several names written on the front, including "Arlie Meyers," "Mildred (Millie) Sanders," "Fred Gordon,"...

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Popular sheet music published 1910-1914 for solo piano. One piece, March of the Boy Scouts by G.A. Grant-Schaefer, contains markings written within the music.

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Popular sheet music published 1910-1914 for piano and voice. Two pieces, The Pink Lady, by C.M.S. McLellan and Ivan Caryll, and Goodbye Girls I'm Through, by John Golden and Ivan Caryll, have the name "Ivan Caryll" handwritten on the front.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: A collection of sheet music from George Novotny from his time working as a vaudeville musician. The pieces were all published between 1873 and 1957. Most were written for piano or piano and voice, but many later pieces have chord parts for guitar or ukulele, expressed in diagrams, symbols, or both. There are also two teaching books for piano technique.Many pieces have one of several names written on the front, including "Arlie Meyers," "Mildred (Millie) Sanders," "Fred Gordon,"...

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Popular sheet music published 1920-1924 for piano and voice. There are also guitar chord parts included in the piece Linger Awhile and in one of two copies of the piece April Showers.

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Popular sheet music published 1925-1929 for solo piano. Also includes Jazz Breaks, Tricks, Blues, Endings Etc. by Art Shefte, a teaching book in jazz techniques.

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Popular sheet music published 1925-1929 for piano and voice with ukulele chord parts.