Browse Collection

Links below allow browing by genre, instrument, topic and ethnic group. Please contact project staff if you have suggestions for additions or corrections that would improve browsing.

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- Band music
- Cakewalks
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- Christmas music and stories
- Country/Old-time music
- Dance bands
- Ethnic humor
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  - Jewish
- Fiddle tunes
- Hawaiian music
- Home recordings
- Humorous recitations
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- Jazz
- Language instruction (English, French, Italian, Spanish, German)
- Marches
- Minstrel music
- Musical theater
- National songs/anthems
- Operas
- Orchestral music
- Patriotic music
- Polkas
- Popular music: to 1901, 1901-1910, 1911-1920, 1921-1930
- Ragtime and rag songs
- Sacred music
- Sermons
- Speeches
- Spirituals
- String Quartets
- Vaudeville
- "Venetian" instrumental groups
- Vocal duets
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- Whistling
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- Guitar
- Hawaiian guitars
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- Ukulele
- Violin
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- Zither
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Last modified: 12/18/07 01:01:01
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The minstrel boy - James C. McAuliffe. (Edison Gold Moulded Record: 8487), [between 1904 and 1908].

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In 1905 Columbia introduced its Twentieth Century cylinders which were six inches long and had a playing time of 3 minutes. They were discontinued in 1908 due to poor sales.