Ginger blue, a popular Negro melody, composed & sung by Mr. R.W. Pelha...
Music cover showing boy dancing in dilapidated room, with kettle in fireplace.
See our torn flag still waving - Public domain book illustration
An illustrated sheet music cover glorifying the nativist cause, produced shortly after the bloody anti-Catholic riots in Kensington, Philadelphia, of May 1844. The song was composed and arranged by James W. Po... More
Sheet music cover for Cadwalader's quick step lith. of Wagner & McGuig...
Print shows General George Cadwalader, full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing in front of a chair, facing slightly left, his right arm is extended and he is receiving or passing papers, he is ... More
Melodies of Bancker's troop of Sable Brothers
LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by A & J.P. Ordway.
The new costume polka composed for the piano by Mathias Keller J. Quee...
Print shows a woman, full length portrait, wearing a bloomer costume, standing on the sidewalk on "Chesnut St." across from the Lee & Walker music store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; female pedestrians on the ... More
The national union - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
A patriotic, illustrated sheet music cover for a song composed by Charles Collins, Jr., and dedicated to Kentucky senator Henry Clay. The work celebrates Clay's efforts to preserve the Union, and was a product ... More
The Breakfast bell polka - Companion to the Dinner & Supper bell
LOT subdivision subject: Daily Life. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford. Copyright by Russell & Richardson.
Down with the traitors serpent flag
An illustrated unionist sheet music cover, condemning secessionist state South Carolina, and probably issued shortly after its Charleston Convention of December 20, 1860. (See "The Palmetto State Song," no. 186... More
The wedding waltzes--For the pianoforte--Composed by W. Vincent Wallac...
Sheet music cover showing young woman, wearing bridal gown and holding bouquet of flowers, standing, three-quarter length, facing slightly right. Copyright by William Hall and Son.
Belle Missouri, written by Howard Glyndon
Music cover illustrated with emblem showing two bears, eagle with shield, moon and a bison. LOT subdivision subject: Emblems and Symbols. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copy... More
Schottisch by A.C. Wondell - to Miss Letitia Verdin
Music cover showing fleet of sailing warships. LOT subdivision subject: Clipper Ships. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Balmer & Weber. Lithograph by Sarony, Majo... More
McClellan song - Public domain portrait print
Music cover with half-length portrait of Major Gen. McClellan, facing right.
My Darling Dwells Over the Sea!
Music cover showing beautiful woman seated on shore with one foot in water, small sail boat in background. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card... More
Why not love thee darling? / N.E. Lith. Steam Ptg. Co., Boston.
Music cover, illustrated with head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman.
Velocipede gallop - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Humorous bicycling scene. LOT subdivision subject: Sports. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. A. Pond & Co. Lithograph by A. Frochster.
Angels' visits / R.P. Studley & Co. Lith.
Two angels flying over town. Title continues: To Miss Emma V. Gaty of St. Louis, By Claude Melnotte.
Sunbeams - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congr...
Music cover showing man and woman relaxing on shore, small sail boat on water and windmill. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Scenes. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Cop... More
Bells of Shandon - Engraving, Public domain image
Music cover showing man, at gate of stone fence by a stream, facing the stream, bridge and bell tower. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Scenes. Title and other information transcribed from caption card an... More
Poster - Base Ball Polka - Public domain lithograph
Music sheet cover showing a baseball game in progress with the pitcher about to throw the ball, the base runners are off, a player at shortstop is holding a baseball bat, and two players at third base are about... More
The American flag, a new national lyric by Revd. J.B. Dickson of Scotl...
Woman dressed in red, white, and blue, with stars on skirt, holding sword and U.S. flag.
Pea Ridge march. Respectfully dedicated to Maj. General Franz Sigel, ...
Music cover illustrated with Gen. Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
The battle of New Orleans / T. Sinclair's lith., Philadelphia.
Music cover showing naval battle. Public domain photograph of Navy warship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The "wigwam" grand march - Public domain portrait print
Print shows Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, in oval. Caption continues: Dedicated to the Republican Presidential Candidate. Hon. Abrm. Lincoln. Also published by: C.C. Clapp & Co.,... More
Come, gang awa'wi' me: Ballad written and composed by Edwin Ransford
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1334
Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, a patriotic song
An illustrated sheet music cover for a "Patriotic Song. Written, to be sung at Baltimore during the Young Men's Whig Convention" of May 1840. The composer is identified as "a Pennsylvanian." The illustration, l... More
The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad - poetry by the hon. Mrs. ...
Sheet music cover shows a man wearing top hat with bag and walking stick leaning on a stile. Sixth edition. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Isaac McGaw, of New York... More
Then You'll Remember Me - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congre...
Music cover showing beautiful woman seated in chair, holding a piece of jewelry. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by Fi... More
Dodge's songs. Ossian E. Dodge as the mesmeric lecturer
LOT subdivision subject: Magic. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Ossion E. Dodge. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford's Lith. Boston, after daguerreotype by Whipple. Capti... More
The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...
Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.
Amazon Polka - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Musical cover showing woman in long, red dress seated side-saddle on a jumping horse. LOT subdivision subject: Sports. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by M. Schmitz... More
Graduating song, class of 1855 / lith. of Sarony & Co., N.Y.
Sheet music cover showing two West Point cadets standing by tree, with building and Hudson River in background. From drawing attributed to James McNeill Whistler.
Columbia rules the sea - sheet music cover
An emblem of an eagle supported by two American flags, illustrates the sheet music cover for a song by Josiah D. Canning. The eagle's wings are spread and its mouth holds a streamer with the composer's sobrique... More
Our country's flag - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
An example typical of the rash of patriotic Unionist prints exalting the American flag, that appeared at the outset of the Civil War. (See also nos. 1861-19 through 1861-21.) "Our Country's Flag" is a handsom... More
We Sleep, But We Are Not Dead, a patriotic song, by James R. Randall
Music cover illustrated with shield. LOT subdivision subject: Emblems and Symbols. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copryight by G. Willig.
The last ditch polka d'accacia / drawn & engd. by H.F. Greene, Boston.
Sheet music cover celebrating Confederate president Jefferson Davis' confinement at Fort Monroe, after his capture by Union troops in May 1865. Davis is portrayed as a rat in a wire cage which in turn is sealed... More
Nicodemus Johnson as sung by Charley Pettingill
African American songs, illustrated music covers. LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by O. Ditson & Co. Engraving by H.F. Gre... More
Be played on 9 pianos - written and sung by William Arlington of Arlin...
Music cover showing woman surrounded by pianos. Title is partially written in musical notes.
Our Banner Song, by Col. E.Z.C. Judson
Music cover showing Union soldier holding and pointing to U.S. flag. LOT subdivision subject: Temperance. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by E.Z.C Judson. Lithograp... More
Only an emigrant - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
LOT subdivision subject: Emigration. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by F.W. Helmick, No 136 W. Fourth St.
School girls march. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
LOT subdivision subject: Children. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published and copyrighted by Oliver Ditson Company; lithograph by Geo. H. Walker & Co., Lith., Boston.
Room in My Heart - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Angel holding baby with halo over head. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Religion. Color lithograph by J.H. Adams. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Caption card tracings... More
The marine Redowa--Dedicated to the brave, energetic and whole souled ...
Music sheet cover showing two ships and two lifeboats during storm at sea. Copyright by O. Ditson & Co.
Capitol March composed by Louis Berge
Music cover showing U.S. Capitol with cannon and flags in foreground. "OP. 45." LOT subdivision subject: District of Columbia. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by Jo... More
The two standards bearers, the day after battle / E.B. Bensell, del. ;...
Music cover showing wounded soldier seated on ground in battlefield, holding up flag in one hand and a sword in the other. Copyright by Matthew C. Bogia. No. 134.
The young American schottisch - Lithograph, public domain, Library of ...
Sheet music cover for a schottisch (a dance similar to the polka), composed by Francis H. Brown and dedicated to "Miss Mary Leeds of New York." The illustration features the standing figure of "Young America,"... More
The phantom ship from legendary ballads by Thomas Moore, arranged for ...
Sheet music cover showing ship in foreground and other ship in background.
The Village Blacksmith - Engraving, Public domain image
Music cover. LOT subdivision subject: Daily Life. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by A & J.P. Ordway; lithograph by E.W. Bouvé.
American liberty - sheet music cover
An illustrated sheet music cover for a patriotic song by Freeman Scott. The title appears on a striped shield with laurel and oak branches below and a flag, liberty pole and cap, spears, and bundled fasces (sym... More
The Leap for Life - Public domain book scan / engraving
Music cover showing broadside view of US Navy warship. LOT subdivision subject: Clipper Ships. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by B. Covert. Engraving by Stratton. ... More
To Miss Mary E. Taylor. The Supper Bell Polka. Companion to the dinner...
Family seated around dinner table, holding up glasses. Title continues: As performed by Gilmore's Salem Brass Band. Composed by P.S. Gilmore. Copyright by Russell & Richardson.
Sally Come Up - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Music cover illustrated with G. Swaine Buckley as a minstrel. LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co. Litho... More
Carroll & Queen's double cloc dance / J. H. Bufford's lith., Boston.
Two men performing dance. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Jeff wants to get away", Confederate States of America.
An illustrated sheet music cover for an anti-Confederate comic song. Confederate president Jefferson Davis stands on a bale of cotton and asks John C. Breckinridge, former U.S. Vice President and fellow secess... More
Croquet - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congre...
Romantic scene of couple seated with croquet equipment nearby. LOT subdivision subject: Sports. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by G.D. Russell and Company. Lithogr... More
The conquered banner, Confederate States of America.
A sheet music cover for a postwar song lamenting the fall of the Confederacy. A ragged Confederate flag stands draped over an abandoned cannon, which sits in a landscape overgrown with grass and weeds. Almost h... More
Beautiful Love - Drawing. Public domain image.
Music cover showing beautiful woman holding flowers to shoulder. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Grecian Bend - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Music cover showing fashionably dressed woman holding parasol. LOT subdivision subject: Fashion. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4440-A Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by W... More
Honest Sam. Tilden, Campaign Song and Chorus
Music cover with head and shoulders portrait of Samuel Tilden. LOT subdivision subject: Political Campaigns - (U.S.). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by J. Church & Co.
I'm going home to Clo - Victorian era public domain image
African American songs, illustrated music covers. Old man leaving North Carolina for South Carolina. LOT subdivision subject: Negro Life. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Cop... More
The fugitive's song - Public domain print
A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him w... More
Star spangled banner Transcribed for the piano by Ch. Voss / / J. Quee...
Sheet music for the "Star Spangled Banner" with illustrated cover showing a Union soldier holding the American flag at a military encampment with tents, a cannon, and rifles in the background. Marian S. Carson ... More
Drawing room polkas--Arranged for the piano forte / Thayer & Cos. Lith...
Sheet music cover showing man and woman dancing. No. 1. Public domain scan of dance performance poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Star spangled banner : national song / Stackpole, sc.
Music cover illustrated with U.S. flag. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
The Star spangled banner : national song / Stackpole, sc.
Music cover illustrated with U.S. flag. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Our country and flag. ... Words & music by Richard Culver / T. Sinclai...
Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The crow quadrilles--Arranged for the pianoforte by Robt. Ashley, Esq....
Music cover with seven vignettes of caricatures of African-Americans. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
La Redowa Polka, danced by Mad. Cereto & Mons. St. Leon
J. Rouvier, del. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Tippecanoe Quick Step - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Cong...
William Henry Harrison leading attack in Battle of Tippecanoe, Nov. 6, 1811. LOT subdivision subject: War of 1812. Published by Sam'l Carusi, Baltimore. Reference copy may be in Lot 4391-E. Title and other info... More
Dandy Jim, from Carolina; a popular Negro melody, as sung by B. Willia...
Music cover showing man looking at himself in mirror. Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The dollar schottische - sheet music cover
LOT subdivision subject: Emblems and Symbols. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published and copyrighted by S. Pearson. H.F. Greene, artist.
Aptommas' history of the harp / C. Currier's lith.
Print shows title page illustration with two angels playing harps, also shows Welsh, Irish, and Egyptian harps, and a lyre.
The Deeds of Marion's Men - Engraving, Public domain image
Marion's Brigade crossing the Pedee River on a raft. Composer: James G. Clark. LOT subdivision subject: Revolution. Published by Russell & Tolman, 291 Washington St. Lithograph by C.A. Evan's Lith. Ref. copy m... More
An evening at Oakland. Romance, composed & respectfully dedicated to t...
Print shows a view from the street of a large white building, the Oakland Female Institute, on the top of a hill, with sidewalk, pedestrians, and parkland in the foreground. Signed on stone in lower left corne... More
Warren Guards Quick Step...Capt. B.O. Wade...of Warrenton, N.C.
Civil War period music covers. LOT subdivision subject: Military Organizations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Henry McCaffrey. Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Bal... More
The story of Gettysburg Music composed for the piano, respectfully ded...
Drawing for sheet music cover, published as A Message from the Battlefield, composed by Mark Hassler, shows wounded soldier surrounded by man, women, and a boy, with a bottle of Buchu on the bedside table.
Richmond has fallen - The Bubble Burst
Music cover. LOT subdivision subject: Civil War - Miscellaneous. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Engraved and del. by H.F. Greene. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. Index... More
We Parted by the River Side - Engraving, Public domain image
Music cover showing woman with head bowed walking from man standing by fence, along river. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Scenes. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copy... More
The Empty Cradle, a Beautiful Ballad
Music cover showing woman looking at cradle. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
One little curl of auburn hair--Words and music by J.H. McNaughton / C...
Sheet music cover showing young woman, seated, three-quarter length, facing left, with her head propped on her right hand, holding lock of hair. Copyright by William A. Pond & Co.
Frou Frou's Dream of Home, by Miss Lina Edwin
Music cover illustrated with girl with long hair, half length, daydreaming. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. A. ... More
Poster - The Gallant Sixty-Ninth - Public domain lithograph
69th Regt., N.G.S., N.Y. Castle Garden and Castle Williams in background. LOT subdivision subject: Military Organizations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. A.... More
Cross and Crown - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
LOT subdivision subject: Emblems and Symbols. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co.
River of Beauty - Engraving, Public domain image
Music cover showing man and woman in boat, with man rowing and woman playing a guitar, on stream with mountains in background. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Scenes. Title and other information transcri... More
Poster - The Bright Beyond - Public domain lithograph
Music cover showing woman seated in chair and surrounded by four angels. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Reference copy may be in LOT 4443A. Title and other information transcribed from caption ca... More
Wanted a substitute. American Civil War 1861-1865.
An illustrated sheet music cover, which protests the inequities of the draft or proscription system enacted under the Enrollment Act of 1863. The act allowed drafted men to purchase an exemption or to furnish a... More
General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step
An illustrated Whig campaign music sheet. Before a log cabin in the wilderness Harrison greets a crippled veteran in a fashion similar to "This log cabin . . ." (no. 1840-17). In the distance is a somewhat lar... More
Home run quick step - respectfully dedicated to the members of the Mer...
Sheet music cover for piano showing baseball players on the field and spectators under the tent of the "M.B.B.C." (Mercantile Base Ball Club) in background. 168 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Lee & Walker... More
The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad / W. Sharp, del. ; printed...
Sheet music cover shows a man wearing a top hat with sack and walking stick leaning on a stile. Reference copy may be in LOT 7010. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Is... More
Columbia the gem of the ocean - sheet music cover
LOT subdivision subject: Flags. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Geo. Willig.
The Prize Song, "The Whig Chief"...dedicated...to Henry Clay, by the B...
Three oval views of Clay's birthplace, Hanover, Ky.; Clay's residence "Ashland"; and White House, Wash., D.C. LOT subdivision subject: Birthplace and Homes. Title and other information transcribed from caption ... More
Sweet Memories of Thee - Engraving, Public domain image
Music cover showing beautiful woman standing on small wooden bridge. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. Hall & Son... More
Answer to Gentle Annie / Chas. Shober Lith.
Print showing title page illustration with man looking at grave of "Gentle Annie" as angels hover above. Words by Miss Helen T. Young, music by J. P. Webster.
Not for Joseph or the Stuyvesant galop--composed by Paul Steinhagen / ...
Music cover. Public domain scan of a poster, printed advertisement, Austro-Hungarian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Song of the Union by a Pennsylvanian . . .
A sheet music cover for a song by John M. Crosland, dedicated to President Buchanan. The cover is illustrated with an array of emblems, many of them symbolizing threats to the integrity of the Union. A bust of ... More
Parade march of the great Potomac Army, respectfully dedicated to Majo...
Music cover with head-and-shoulders portrait of Major Gen. McClellan, facing left.
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Riflemens Grand March...Petersburg [Virginia] Riflemen
Civil war period music covers. LOT subdivision subject: Military Organizations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Lee & Walker. Caption card tracings: Civil War ... More
One Share of Stock in the Spondulix Petroleum Co.
LOT subdivision subject: Industry. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. A. Pond & Co.; lithograph by Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway.
Dreaming of home and mother - Public domain music sheet scan
Public domain sheet music, notation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
March dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic, by J.W. Turner
Music cover illustrated with composite of allegorical, patriotic vignettes, including Liberty with sword, parade before U.S. Capitol, women nursing wounded and mourning at grave. LOT subdivision subject: Emblem... More
We have laid thee to rest dearest Willie
LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Death. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Jewett & Mischka. Lithograph by the Sage Sons & Co. Lith. Prg. & Mfg. Co. Buffalo, N.Y.