A cover from 1915
Read ‘Em and Weep: the songs you forgot to remember
A 1945 book written by Sigmund Spaeth. A Treasury of American Songs — Some Sad, More Merry, Some Sentimental; with a Wealth of Amiable Anecdote, Comment and Fascinating Folk-Lore — a Flavorful Feast of Melodious Music. Foreword by Richard Rodgers.
Check out this interesting book for free here:
https://archive.org/details/reademweep0000sigm/page/n9/mode/2up
Other books by Sigmund Spaeth:
Barber Shop Ballads
Milton’s Knowledge of Music
The Common Sense of Music
Words and Music
A cover from 1935
Janice Cleary collection
This sheet music collection of 50,000 items has been donated to Mississippi State University and is being processed there.
Next to the Library of Congress and University of Illinois this will be the largest collection I know of. The great thing about large single collections is that they don’t have the duplication you find among parallel collections.
A cover from 1926
