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Katy Darling: A Favorite Song
No full textThe piano score and lyrics for Katy Darling published by Oliver Ditson and Company.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/aa_sheet_music/1234/thumbnail.jp
Our land a national song
No full textAn illustrated sheet music cover for a song by George W. Babcock (Thomas Comer, composer) and dedicated to Samuel R. Spinney, Esq. The design shows Columbia or American Liberty (center) wearing a gorgon's head on her breast and a Phrygian cap ornamented with stars. She holds a shield and an American flag. On the ground to the right is an eagle with arrows and a streamer with the motto "E Pluribus Unum." On the left is a kneeling female figure, presumably representing Learning or History, holding a laurel wreath and a large book. She motions with her left hand and looks toward Columbia. Behind, in a bare mountainous landscape under a cloudy sky, sits a classical temple-like building with a dome supported by a large peristyle lantern.A variant copy (cover only with different image) is in P&P LOT 10615-34; LC-USZ62-89295.Boston. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co. 277 Washington St.Entered . . . 1858 by O. Ditson & Co.John H. Bufford's Lith.The Library's copy of the sheet music was deposited for copyright on December 8, 1858.Title appears as it is written on the item.Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1858-5
Ho! For the Kansas plains
No full textAn illustrated sheet music cover for an antislavery song, dedicated to abolitionist spokesman Henry Ward Beecher. The illustration features a roundel illustration of the burning of the Free State Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas, by a proslavery mob in May 1856. The roundel is flanked by a standing Indian (left) and a settler, seated and holding a musket and Bible. The settler is probably meant to represent one of the emigrants recruited by associations like the New England Emigrant Aid Company to settle in Kansas in hopes of insuring its emergence as a free state.A variant copy (cover only, with slightly different image) is in P&P LOT 10615-11; LC-USZ62-53600.Boston. Published by Oliver Ditson Washington St.Designed and engraved by Greene & Walker Boston.Entered . . . 1856 by O. Ditson.Title appears as it is written on the item.Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1856-10
Honest Abe’s Quick Step
Full text link80.7568.506 – “Honest Abe’s Quick Step”: no Composer: Oliver Ditson & Co.: 1860: Piano Solo Dance
Pulaski Quick Step
No full text80.7568.1014 – “Pulaski Quick Step”: James Hooton: Oliver Ditson: 1836: Piano
Catalogue of sheet music and music-books published by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St.
No full text341, [1], 50, [4] p. 19 cm
Ode to liberty. Cordially dedicated to all the human race
No full textA sheet music cover, illustrated with the personification of Liberty in the form of the helmeted goddess Minerva. Her helmet is adorned with a laurel wreath and four large plumes. With her left arm she supports a shield and a spear with liberty cap and holds a scroll with the publisher's imprint in her right. A small star with the price of the sheet appears in the lower right of the composition. The design illustrates music written and composed by George Boweryem.Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co. 277 Washington St.Entered . . . 1858 by E.A. Daggott . . . New York.New-York. Published by Horace Waters, 333 Broadway.Signed: Stackpole sculpsit.The Library's copy was deposited for copyright on October 16, 1858.Title appears as it is written on the item.Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1858-4
[The] Grave of Bonaparte
Full text link80.7568.455 – “[The] Grave of Bonaparte”: Heath, L.: Oliver Ditson: Boston: Minstrel, Ballad, Lost Love: 1843: Solo Voice
Funeral March; or Marche Funebre
Full text link80.7568.369 – “Funeral March; or Marche Funebre”: Donizetti: Oliver Ditson & Co.: Boston: March, Funeral, Abraham Lincoln: n.d.: Solo Piano. (2 copies
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