Illustrated Song Sheets

Resources

Topical Websites:

• The World’s Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
• Syncopated Tunes: exploring the world of Hot Jazz, Ragtime, and Swing
• The Ephemera Society of America: a fellowship of collectors, scholars, researchers, archivists, and dealers.
• The Ephemera Society [British] is a non-profit body devoted to the conservation, study, and presentation of printed and handwritten ephemera.
• Collection Management System for Artists, Archivists, Collectors and Galleries
• First Epoch: devoted to the scholar and collector of early American popular sheet music (secular, neither religious or purely classical).
• The Great American Songbook Foundation’s Library & Archives exist to preserve the cultural materials that have enduring value to the historical documentation of American popular music.
• An authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe.
• High Brown Songs: the black experience wasn’t all negative. There were positive aspects. This project attempts to honor the artistic and cultural endeavors that have gone before.
• Sheet Music Warehouse: this British site has hundreds of pictured song sheets for sale.
• A private blogger’s website about music.
• Images Musicales: a private collection of more than 10.000 illustrated sheet music mostly 1890 – 1940, with a particular interest for Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
• Early 1900s Music Preservation: promotes awareness and appreciation of vintage music and recordings from the early decades of the 20th century (1900-1945).
• Parlor Songs: Preserving America’s Popular Music Heritage.
• Picture This: The Best Illustrated Music Books brings contemporary music history back to life.
• Partitions Anciennes: French site of online sale of sheet music.
• In-depth discussion of sheet music images and background.
• Europeana: empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation.
• Sheet Music Plus: sells sheet music and digital downloads.
• Vads: over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK.
• Arizona Archives Online
  • Search on: David Soren popular sheet music collection, 1801-2011 (bulk 1900-1950)

Library Collections:

• Johns Hopkins University Library
• The Lester S. Levy sheet music collection
• Berkeley Univ. Digital Collections: provides online access to UC Berkeley Library’s rare and unique digitized special collections.
• Capital Collections: image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries.
• Blog and collections from the Jerwood library of Performing Arts at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
• University of Oregon Libraries
• Library of Congress Digital Collections.
• Library of Congress Folklife Center
• University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library, sheet music collections
• Online Archive of California: Search over 55,000 collections.
• University of California: search for sheet music
• UCLA sheet music search
• Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music: Student Blogs and Library Exhibit Companion
• The Sheet Music Consortium promotes access to and use of online sheet music collections.
• https://digitalcollections-baylor.quartexcollections.com/
• Baylor University Library – Digital Collections
  • Search: Arts and Special Collections Research Center – Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music
• Indiana University:
  • Search on Sam DeVincent collection of American sheet music, 1797-1992
• The McCracken Research Library of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
• University of Michigan: digitized archival collections
• Duke University Libraries: Respository Collections and Archives
• American song sheets
• Indiana University Library: In Harmony – digitized sheet music from Indiana
• Internet Archive: a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Mississippi State University – Petrucci Music Library: sharing the world’s public domain music.
• Mississippi State University: sheet music collection
• University of Maine
  • Search on Engler Library, Parlor Salon Sheet Music Collection

Museum Collections:

• The Museum of Performance + Design collects, preserves, and makes accessible materials on performance and theater design.
• Smithsonian Institution: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
• Houses the Sam DeVincent collection of illustrated American sheet music.
• University of Southern California Archives. Has several sheet music collections.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Music Library: 19th Century American Sheet Music
• Sid Richardson Museum: focuses on paintings and art of the American West.
• Museum of Northern Arizona: shares some of its collections online.
• The Autry Museum of the American West: the Library and Archives inspires scholarship by a multidisciplinary research community by its book and archive collections.
• The New Mexico Museum of Art is a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
• Museum of New Mexico Press
• Texas Music Museum
• WorldCat.org locates materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. Connects thousands of libraries’ collections, Browse the world’s libraries from one search box.