Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Sheet Music collection
ACMA.10-005
Archival Resource Key
1.66 Linear feet
24 sheet music, 1 box
circa 1899-1952
English
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Contents
A toast to W.C. Handy; on the Occasionof his 79th Birthday dinner Waldorf Astoria hotel, N.Y.C. -- The Blues I've got poet -- Harlem Lullaby -- Ole Manny's Lullaby Songs; with an instrumental medley -- He's up against the real thing now -- Everytime I pick a sweetie; with Ukulele arrangement -- You're in the right Church but the wrong pew; The greatest of williams and Walkers great big hits -- Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me; United States -- Williams' Original Dixie Jubilee Singers -- Three Questions -- Any Rags -- DarkTown Barbacue -- Nobody -- Hail to the Spirit of Freedom; Souvenir of the Lincoln Jubilee -- Make Way for Cindy! -- Impecunious Davis; characteristic two-step, march and cake-walk -- Miss Dinah Fair; a darkey dissertation.
Conditions Governing Access
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
Scope and Contents
This collection, which dates from circa 1899-1952, contains sheet music mostly by African-American composers. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties" which was held at the Anacostia Community Museum from September 1985--December 1986.
Preferred Citation
Sheet Music collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Custodial History
Purchased by the Anacostia Community Museum.
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans -- Music
Sheet music
He's up against the real thing, by William & Walker
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
11 x 14 inches
1898
Music -- African-American
Minstrel music
Vaudeville
Impecunious Davis: characteristic two-step march, polka and cake-walk
Archival Resource Key
Mills, Kerry, 1869-1948
1 Document
11 x 14 inches
1899
Ragtime
Sheet music
Make Way for Cindy! Composed by A. C. Severance
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
10 x 14 inches
1899
Music -- Songs
Sheet music
Music -- African-American
A feature with Miss Dinah Fair: A Darkey Dissertation by Lottie Thompson
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
10 x 14 inches
1899
Sheet music
Music -- African-American
Ole Mammy's Lullaby Songs
Archival Resource Key
Jones, Gertrude Manly
1 Document
10 x 13 inches
1901
African Americans
Music
Lullabies
Any Rags, featured by Dan Coleman in Ward & Vokes Company
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
11 x 14 inches
1902
Ragtime music
Schottisches
Popular music -- 1910-1920
Piano
DarkTown Barbacue, Words and Music by Will Marion Cook
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
10 x 13 inches
1905
Songs
Popular music -- 1900-1910
Nobody, Words by Alex Rogers and Music by Bert A. Williams
Archival Resource Key
Williams, Bert, 1874-1922
1 Document
11 x 14 inches
1905
Sheet music
Popular music -- 1900-1910
Williams' Original Dixie Jubilee Singers
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
8 x 19 inches
1908
Singers
African Americans
Pianists
You're in the right Church but the wrong pew, by Cecil Mack and Chris Smith
Archival Resource Key
Mack, Cecil
Smith, Chris
1 Document
10 x 13 inches
1908
Sheet music
Scores
Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me, by William & Walker
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
11 x 14 inches
1908
Songs with piano -- 19th century
Popular music -- 1900-1910
Minstrel music
Musicals
Hail to the Spirit of Freedom: Souvenir of the Lincoln Jubilee, W.C. Handy
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
9 x 12 inches
1915
African Americans -- Music
Marches
Three Questions A Ballad by J. Rosamond Johnson
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
9 x 12 inches
1917
O Death Where is Thy Sting, Clarence A. Stout
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
22 x 28 inches
1918
Popular music -- 1910-1920
Music -- African-American
Popular culture
When you sang "Hush-a-bye Baby" to me; Companion song to Missouri waltz song (Hush-a-bye ma baby), by Jesse G.M. Glick, Frederic Knight Logan and Abe Olman
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
26 x 30 inches
1918
African American music -- 20th century
Piano music (Ragtime)
Sheet music
Songs
The Moon Shines on the Moonshine, by Robert Hood Bowers and Francis De Witt
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
24 x 31 inches
1920
Popular music -- United States -- 1910-1930
Music -- Songs
Sheet music
The Blues I've got, by N.E. Reed and Ethel Neal
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
9 x 12 inches
1925
Sheet music
Music -- African-American
Popular music -- United States -- 1910-1930
Everytime I pick a sweetie, by Andrea Razaf, Phil Worde and Allie Moore
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
9 x 13 inches
1927
Sheet music
Music -- African-American
Popular music -- United States -- 1910-1930
Harlem Lullaby, by Margot Millham and Willard Robison
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
10 x 12 inches
1932
Sheet music -- 1930-1940
Music -- African-American
Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
22 x 30 inches
1935
Sheet music
Opera
Cotton Club Parade, by Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
22 x 28 inches
1936
Sheet music
Music -- African-American
Minstrel Book with Charts, Jokes, Poems and Songs (words and music)
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
15 x 23 inches
1938
Minstrel music
Sheet music
Minstrels
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, by Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
23 x 31 inches
1946
Popular music
Motion picture music
Piano vocal scores
Sheet music -- 1940-1950
A toast to W.C. Handy
Archival Resource Key
1 Document
10 x 13 inches
1952
Sheet music -- 1950-1960
Music -- African-American