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Scope and content: Heavily illustrated scrapbook, with frequent annotations, compiled by Mary Weber Farrar. The bulk of the scrapbook dates from 1892 to 1899. A few individual items date from 1905, ca. 1920, and ca. 1942; their source is not known. Pages are numbered with one page number referencing a two-page spread. In ink, inside the front cover, an inscription reads, "Musical Notes, Mrs. F.E. Farrar, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1895. Further on...
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Scope and content: These 19th century volumes of sheet music are comprised of favorite songs and piano-forte compositions, characteristic of a cultural era in America when educated young ladies entertained family and friends in their home parlors. The original sheet music imprints, circa 1824-ca. 1892, were collected and published as bound volumes, by Nashville "blank book manufacturers," with the names of the individuals printed on the front cover:...
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