>Date:         Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:51:03 -0400
>From: Danna Bell-Russel <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: Library of Congress
>Subject:      Announcement of New Collection from American Memory
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Good morning,
>
>This is an announcement of a new American Memory Collection which will
>be released TOMORROW August 25, 1999. Please accept apologies for any
>duplicate postings.
>
>Please direct any questions about this collection to [log in to unmask]
>
>"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!"    Stern Sheet Music Collection Is Latest
>Addition to the American Memory Historical Collections
>
>Sheet music portraying the career and death of Abraham Lincoln is the
>latest addition to the American Memory Historical Collections available
>on the Library of Congress Web site.  "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!":
>Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the
>Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana includes more than two
>hundred compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in
>popular music.  The collection spans the years from Lincoln's campaign
>for president in 1859 through the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909.
>This sheet music is part of a collection of Lincoln-related materials
>given to the Library in 1953 by Alfred Whital Stern.  The Stern
>Collection is widely regarded as the greatest collection of Lincolniana
>assembled by a private individual.
>
>This addition to Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml> includes songs that show Lincoln's
>popularity, or lack thereof, during his campaigns, the Civil War, and
>after his death.  Other public figures represented in the songs are
>Frederick Douglass, Ulysses Grant, Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis, and
>Robert E. Lee.  The collection also highlights some of the advances in
>printing techniques, such as color lithography, that developed during
>this fifty-year period.  It also documents some of the changes in
>commercial advertising during this era, such as the use of the blank
>pages in printed sheet music for printing music-company catalogs.
>
>The materials in this collection are available for downloading not only
>in JPEG format but also as GIF and archival TIFF files.  Having a
>variety of image files available allows for the creation of
>high-resolution copies that can be easily printed for use in musical
>performances.
>
>"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation,
>and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
>can be accessed through the American Memory historical collections at
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html>
>
>


Mary Ellin D'Agostino, PhD, RPA
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Archaeological Research Facility
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1076
Fax: 510-643-9637
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