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Collection of 26 19th Century Song Shee

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Collection of 26 19th Century Song Shee
Eighteen are listed in Wolf&#39;s <I>American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides</I> &#40;Philadelphi: Library Col, 1963&#41;. Many have decorative borders &#40;four are colored&#41;. Titles include: &#34;John Brown&#34;; &#34;Three Hundred Thousand More,&#34; beginning &#34;We are coming, Father Abraam….&#34;; &#34;Sweet Mississippi&#34;; and &#34;The Sword of Bunker-Hill&#34;; and &#34;Witching Dinah Crow.&#34;&#34; Sizes vary, the largest being 9¾x6&#34;; each is housed in an archival mylar holder. Condition is very good to fine; some toning, edge chips, and small paper loss. Song sheets are single, printed sheets, usually 6x8&#34;, with lyrics but no music. Accompanied by six pieces of advertising ephemera: three touting organs and/or piano, one a camera, one a stationery store, and one the 1916 San Diego World&#39;s Fair.