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Songs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Abraham Gridley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-5-1707
Scope and content

Includes Cornell University Class of 1873 directory; songbook; songs and poems; class history; and a newspaper article about Abraham Gridley. Also, copies of letters of Irving P. Church, Edwin Gillette, Charles Levings, and Avery Turner.

Dates: 1901-1941.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Abraham Gridley papers

Cornell University songs and sheet music

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065264032]
Identifier: 47-6-2124
Abstract

Cornell song books and sheet music.

Dates: 1870-2000.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University songs and sheet music

Edward R. Taylor papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2638
Scope and content

Includes ledgers, cash books, check stubs, diaries, letter books, accounts, proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891-1908, various locations), song books, statements, invoices, bills, receipts, and printed matter, some related to the Taylor Chemical Company.

Dates: 1812-1925.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Edward R. Taylor papers

Hibbard family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926714]
Identifier: 37-5-2589
Scope and content

SONGS OF CORNELL, which includes football fight songs; and a letter from Frank's daughter, Evelyn Hibbard Stewart, reminiscing about the songbook. Also, campus photos and invitations, 1913-1916, of Frank Hibbard and Irma E. Powell Hibbard.

Dates: 1909-1983.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hibbard family papers

Jack Farrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6706
Dates: 1874
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / Jack Farrell Papers

Manuscript music lyrics

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239497]
Identifier: 206m
Scope and content

Handwritten copies of the words to more than forty romantic, religious, patriotic, and other songs. Mid-19th century. Names of Jonathan F. and Thomas Doty appear on some items; a few are well-known songs.

Dates: [ca. 1850]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Manuscript music lyrics

Music pamphlet collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 87 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070748763]
Identifier: 8047m
Scope and content

"Songs for the Union League of America," 1864; and "Leavitt's Songster," ca. 1863.

Dates: 1863-1864.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Music pamphlet collection

Radical and Labor Songbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8611
Abstract This collection is comprised of radical song books, music sheets, periodical issues and broadsides spanning the period ca. 1850 to 1990, with primary emphasis on the period 1900-1940. It includes rare pieces (such as numerous early editions of the I.W.W. "Little Red Songbook") as well as ephemeral song-sheets and song-books. Periodicals represented in the collection include "Sing Out!", "Broadside: the Topical Song Magazine", and "Promenade," an influential leftist folk-dance mimeo. The...
Dates: circa 1850s-1980s.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Radical and Labor Songbook Collection

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