Music Library-19th Century Am. Sheet Music Digitization Project

19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project

The 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project was initiated by a one-time Instructional Technology Grant from the late Chancellor Michael Hooker. Eighty-two volumes (approximately 3300 pieces) of sheet music have been indexed. The contents of most of these volumes have been fully scanned and are available on this site.

You may wish to visit these excellent sites:

Sheet Music Consortium, including UC Los Angeles, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University
Charles H. Templeton Ragtime Sheet Music Collection at Mississippi State University
19th Century California Sheet Music collection at UC Berkeley
Ashford Sheet Music Collection at University of Washington
Sheldon Harris Sheet Music Collection at University of Mississippi
From the Library of Congress American Memory collections:
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1820-1860 and 1870-1885
- African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920 at Brown University
- America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets published late 1700s to 1880s, with lyrics only
- "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

Links to Other Sheet Music Collections

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This page was last updated Friday, March 07, 2008.