Mitchell Family Sheet Music, 1843-1933 | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Mitchell Family Sheet Music, 1843-1933

Extent: 0.36 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 09/12/2017

Subjects: Music.

Languages: English, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection of sheet music came from the Mitchell family of Jessamine County. The collection includes a number of pieces from Kentuckians such as Stephen Foster and Will S. Hays. Other pieces were published in Lexington or Louisville, Kentucky. There are also multiple pieces of music from the Civil War and World War I. Other pieces are from classical composers such as Mozart and Strauss or popular early twentieth century composers such as Irving Berlin. A few pieces of music have lyrics handwritten on the back. In all this collection is a good representation of music that would have been played in Kentucky homes from 1850 through 1935.

Collection Historical Note

Several members of the Mitchell family are represented within this collection of sheet music. The earliest music has the names Emma Mitchell and Sue Mitchell inscribed on many of the pieces. Later music is inscribed with the name Marion Mitchell. Emma Jane Mitchell (1854-1939) and Sue Mitchell (1846-1867) were the daughters of George and Louisa Soper Mitchell. Neither sister married and later in life Emma lived with her brothers' families. Marion Mitchell (1902-1998) was the daughter of Emma and Sue's brother, Alonzo Mitchell. Marion was a music teacher in Jessamine and Bourbon Counties and never married.

Subject/Index Terms

Music.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Acquisition Source: Everman, Hank

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Folder 1: Sheet Music, 1843-1864

Item 1: Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean, 1843: Sung at the Boston, New York, and Philadelphia; Creator: Shaw, David T.
Item 2: The Wave Waltz, 1845: Dedicated to Mrs. J. Coleman; Creator: Totso, Joseph
Item 3: Katy Darling, 1845: Creator: Ditson, Oliver
Item 4: How Sweet Are The Roses, 1845: Full Color Cover Art; Creator: Lee and Walker
Item 5: Gentle Jenny Gray, 1855: Sung by Mr. Josh Murphy; Creator: Osborn, E. H.
Item 6: I Love Thee Fondly Dearest, 1855: Published By W. C. Peters and Sons; Creator: Waggener, S. S.
Item 7: Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming, 1855: Published By WMA. Pond; Creator: Foster, Stephen C.
Item 8: Gentle Jenny Gray, 1856: Published by David P. Faulds Louisville Ky.; Creator: Hall, John and Henry
Item 9: Tis Midnight On The Stormy Deep, 1857: Respectfully Inscribed to Miss Mary T. Dailey; Creator: B. E. L.
Item 10: The Ocean Telegraph March, 1858: Cordially Dedicated to Cyrus W. Field ESQ. of New York; Creator: Brown, Francis H.
Item 11: Lilly Dale, 1858: Published By Oliver Ditson 115 Washington St.; Creator: Thompson, H. S.
Item 12: When the Swallows Homeward Fly, 1855: To Hattie L. Willson, German Song; Creator: Abt, Franz
Item 13: Confederacy March, 1861: Most Respectfully Dedicated to President Jefferson Davis; Creator: Toulmin, Alfred F.
Item 14: Bonnie Blue Flag, 1861: Published By George Willig, Baltimore; Creator: McCarthy, Harry
Item 15: The Battle-Cry of Freedom, 1862: Published By Root & Cady, 95 Clark St.; Creator: Root, George F.
Item 16: I'm Looking For Him Home, 1862: Published By D. P. Faulds, Louisville, KY; Creator: Hays, Will S.
Item 17: Grand March, 1863: Published By J. Church Jr, N. 66; Creator: Burnside, Genl.
Item 18: Susette, 1863: There's Not A Smile Like Thine; Creator: Hastings, R.
Item 19: Just After The Battle, 1864: Published By Root & Cady, 95 Clark St.; Creator: Root, George F.

Folder 2: Sheet Music, 1864-1901

Item 1: Star of My Future Life, 1864: Ballad, Composed By Christian Liebitz; Creator: Hartz, Asa
Item 2: Just Before The Battle, Mother, 1864: Published By Root & Cady, 95 Clark St.; Creator: Root, George F.
Item 3: The Voices That Are Gone, 1865: Published By Wm. A. Pond & Co. 547 Broadway; Creator: Foster, Stephen C.
Item 4: To Those Who Wore It The Faded Gray Jacket, 1866: Author of We Know That We Were Rerels & C.; Creator: Ward, Charlie L.
Item 5: Waiting Song, 1867: Published By Min. A. Pond & Co. 547 & 896 Broadway; Creator: Millard, S.
Item 6: Kittie Blanchard's Songs, 1868: Published By G. D. Russell & Company 126 Tremont Opp. Park St.
Item 7: Birds Will Come Again, 1870: C. H. Ditson & Co 711 Broadway; Creator: Baker, Thomas
Item 8: Favorite Comic Songs, 1872: Published By Louis P. Goullaud; Creator: Williams, Gus
Item 9: Little Sweetheart, 1872: St. Louis Balmer & Weber Publishers; Creator: Campbell, T. H.
Item 10: Silver Threads Among The Gold, 1873: New York, 13 East 14th Street; Creator: Danks, H. P.
Item 11: Mother Let The Angels In, 1873: "Beautiful Song & Chorus"; Creator: Crandall, R. S.
Item 12: Gathering Shells From The Seashore, 1877: Creator: Thompsom, Will L.
Item 13: Wait Till The Clouds Roll By, 1881: Published By T. B. Harms & Co, 819 Broadway; Creator: Fulmer, H. J.
Item 14: Pretty Pond Lilies, 1883: Willis WoodWard & Co.; Creator: Hall, Lillie
Item 15: Celebrated Operatic Transcriptions, 1897: McKinley Music Co.
Item 16: Compositions For Pianoforte, 1897: Boston: The Boston Music Co.
Item 17: Two-Step Song, 1898: Published By Hamilton And Hughes, Lexington, KY; Creator: Hughes, J. W.
Item 18: Daily Essentials, 1899: Piano Forte Practice; Creator: Drem, P. W. and Presser, Theo
Item 19: Democratic Campaign SongFolio, 1900: Published Monthly By The National Association of Democratic Clubs
Item 20: Favorite Composers, 1900: Blue Picture on Front Cover
Item 21: Hungarian Rhapsodie, 1900: McKinley Music Co.; Creator: Liszt, Pranz
Item 22: Popular Pianoforte Compositions, 1900: McKinley Music Co.
Item 23: Schirmer's Library, 1901: Vol. 663 Mozart Concerto For The Pianoforte In E-flat Major; Creator: Mozart

Folder 3: Sheet Music, 1902-1922

Item 1: Piano Compositions, 1902: Oliver Ditson Company; Creator: Wilson G. D.
Item 2: Patriotic Compositions, 1905: McKinley Music Co.
Item 3: Chinatown My Chinatown, 1910: Jerome H. Remick and Co.; Creator: Schwartz, Jean
Item 4: Silver Threads Among The Gold Waltz, 1910: Popular Song Arranged for Piano By Walter A. Phillips; Creator: Danks, H. P.
Item 5: Tres Moutarde, 1911: "Too Much Mustard"; Creator: Macklin, Cecil
Item 6: The Celebrated Barcarolle, 1911: Tales Of Hoffmann; Creator: Offenbach, J.
Item 7: When That Midnight Choo, Choo, Leaves For Alabam, 1912: Train on the Cover; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 8: When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandie, 1912: Jerome H. Remick and Co.; Creator: Tucker, Sophie
Item 9: I'm On My Way To Mandalay, 1913: By the Writers of "Peg O My Heart"; Creator: Fisher, Fred
Item 10: Aloha Oe, 1913: Creator: H. M. Queen Lili'uokalani
Item 11: There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland, 1913: Writers of "the Trail of the Lonesome Pine"; Creator: Carroll, Harry
Item 12: Happy Little Country Girl, 1913: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. Music Publishers; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 13: Ballin The Jack, 1913: Green and Red art; Creator: Smith, Chris
Item 14: It's Tulip Time in Holland (Two Lips Are Calling Me), 1915: Creator: Radford, Dave ; Whiting, Richard A.
Item 15: Sextet From Lucia, 1915: Color art cover; Creator: Donizetti
Item 16: Poet And Peasant Overture, 1915: De Luxe Edition; Creator: Suppee
Item 17: Over There, 1917: U.S.S. Michigan; Creator: Cohan, Geo. M.
Item 18: Somewhere in France is the Lily, 1917: Creator: Howard, Joe E. ; Johnson Philander
Item 19: Where Do We Go From Here, 1917: Herman Darewski Music Publishing Co. London, Eng.; Creator: Johnson, Howard ; Wenrich, Percy
Item 20: Say A Prayer For The Boys "Out There", 1917: The Greatest Patriotic Ballad Of The Season; Creator: Grossman, Bernie ; Marr, Alex
Item 21: Joan Of Arc They Are Calling You, 1917: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. Music Publishers; Creator: Wells, Jack ; Weston, Willie ; Bryan, Alfred
Item 22: Huckleberry Finn, 1917: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. Music Publishers; Creator: Lewis, Sam. M. ; Hess, Cliff
Item 23: Homeward Bound, 1917: Successfully Introduced By Dorothy Jardon; Creator: Johnson, Howard ; Goetz, Coleman ; Meyer, Geo.
Item 24: Queen High, 1917: Harms New York; Creator: Desylva, B. G. ; Gensler, Lewis E.
Item 25: All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me, 1917: M. Witmark and Sons; Creator: Dubin, Al ; Ball, Ernest R.
Item 26: Long Boy, 1917: Shahiro Bernstein and Co. Music Publishers; Creator: Herschell, William ; Walker, Barclay ; Williams, Gaar
Item 27: Beautiful Ohio Song, 1918: Creator: Macdonald, May Earl and Ballard
Item 28: They Were All Out Of Step But Jim, 1918: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. Music Publishers; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 29: We Want Our Daddy Dear, Back Home, 1918: M. Witmark and Sons; Creator: Reilly, James M. ; Costa, Harry De
Item 30: Tech Triumph, 1919: Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Creator: Epes, W. Mattie ; Maddux, W. P.
Item 31: Let The Rest Of The World Go By, 1919: M. Witmark and Sons; Creator: Brennan, J. Keirn ; Ball, Ernest R.
Item 32: Tears of Love, 1919: Dedicated to Miss Norma Talmadge; Creator: Henry, S. R. ; Warren, Frank H.
Item 33: Bygones Song, 1919: Harms New York; Creator: Wesley, Louis ; Kortlander, Max ; Alpert, Harry
Item 34: Till We Meet Again Song, 1919: Jerome H. Remick and Co.; Creator: Egan, Raymond B. ; Whiting, Richard A.
Item 35: My Isle Of Golden Dreams Song, 1919: Jerome H. Remick and Co.; Creator: Kahn, Gus ; Blaufuss, Walter
Item 36: Venetian Moon, 1919: Creator: Kahn, Gus ; Goldberg, Phil ; Magine, Frank
Item 37: Queen High, 1921: Cross Your Heart; Creator: Gensler, Lewis E. ; Desylva, B. G.
Item 38: Call Me Back Pal O' Mine, 1921: Published By Dixon-Lane Music Pub Co.; Creator: Perricone, Lawrence; Dixon, Harold
Item 39: Virginia Blues, 1922: Creator: Erdman, Ernie; Meinken, Fred
Item 40: I'm Drifting Back To Dreamland, 1922: Ted Browne Music Co.; Creator: Charlesworth, Florence; Harrison, Charles

Folder 4: Sheet Music, 1923-1933

Item 1: Last Night on the Back Porch, 1923: Skidmore Music Co. Inc.; Creator: Brown, Lew; Schraubstader, Carl
Item 2: Minuet In G, 1924: Morris Music Co.; Creator: Beethoven, L. Van
Item 3: June Night, 1924: Give Me A June Night, The Moonlight And You; Creator: Baer, Abel; Friend, Cliff
Item 4: Floatin' Down the Mississippi, 1924: Geo. Lipschultz Conductor of Loew's Warfield Theatre Orchestra; Creator: McKenna, Wm J.
Item 5: Aba Daba Honeymoon, 1924: As Featured By Ruth Roye The Princess of Ragtime; Creator: Fields, Arthur; Donovan, Walter
Item 6: Truly I Do, 1925: Ted Browne Music Co.; Creator: Palmer, Lester; Williams, Jess
Item 7: Dance Folio For Piano, 1925: Irving Berlin, Inc.; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 8: At Peace With The World, 1926: Irving Berlin, Inc.; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 9: Because I Love You, 1926: Irving Berlin, Inc.; Creator: Berlin, Irving
Item 10: Rio Rita, 1926: A musical comedy at Ziegfeld Theater (3 copies); Creator: McCarthy, Joseph; Tierney, Harry
Item 11: Tonight You Belong To Me, 1926: Henry Waterson Inc.; Creator: Rose, Billy; David, Lee
Item 12: Hit The Deck, 1927: A Nautical Musical Comedy; Creator: Fields, Herbert; Robin, Leo; Grey, Clifford; Youmans, Vincent
Item 13: Il Grosatore, 1928: Fantaisie; Creator: Dorin, E.
Item 14: Serenade, 1928: Morris Music Co; Creator: Schubert, F.
Item 15: Traumerei, 1928: Morris Music Co; Creator: Schumann, R.
Item 16: Beautiful Blue Danube, 1928: Morris Music Co; Creator: Strauss
Item 17: I'm Bringing A Red Red Rose, 1928: Walter Donaldson; Creator: Donaldson, Walter; Kahn, Gus
Item 18: The New Moon, 1928: A Musical Romance of The Spanish Main; Creator: Romberg, Sigmund; Mandel, Frank; Hammerstein, Oscar
Item 19: Song of the Moonbeams, 1929: A Musical volume of laughs and Lovely girls; Creator: Tobias, Harry; Tobias, Charles; Rose, Vincent
Item 20: Let Me Have My Dreams, 1929: On With The Show; Creator: Clarke, Grant; Akst, Harry
Item 21: Ich Liebe Dich, 1929: Clarence Brown's Production Wonder of Women; Creator: Fisher, Fred; Broones, Martin
Item 22: Moonlight On The Colorado, 1930: Barbelle, Color Art Cover; Creator: Moll, Billy; King, Robert A.
Item 23: By Campfire-In The Moonlight, 1933: De Sylva Brown and Henderson, Inc..; Creator: Fields, Buddy; Lewis, Al; Sherman, Al

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