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Scope and content: Materials include recordings, souvenir brochures, show posters, sheet music, books, and periodicals, tracing American popular music and musical theater from the mid-1800s into the twenty-first century. The sheet music collection of approximately 2,500 pieces includes the oldest items (dozens from the 1800s) and is strongest for the era of 1900-1930 popular songs, the heyday of Irving Berlin, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Jerome Kern,...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, flyers, invitations, posters, handbills, newsletters, and a variety of other materials by and about Nashville area performing arts, including venues and specific performances and performers. The vast majority of materials throughout the collection are programs or promotional flyers and posters. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Some items are photocopies.
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Scope and content: A mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum circa 1857. Subjects are finely detailed drawings of various buildings in Nashville, Tenn., including a number of structures that were destroyed by fire in 1856-1857. Buildings include churches, banks, schools, public buildings, storefronts, and others. Two maps are of Nashville in 1804 "from...
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