http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9870072n No online items Guide to the William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection M0701 Processed by Stephan Potchatek; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble Department of Special Collections and University Archives 1997 ; revised 2019 Green Library 557 Escondido Mall Stanford 94305-6064
[email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Guide to the William R. and M0701 1 Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection M0701 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives Title: William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection Identifier/Call Number: M0701 Physical Description: 47 Linear Feet(68 boxes) Date (inclusive): 1799-1950 Abstract: Collection of 19th and 20th century American sheet music and song books, much of which organized by subject. Scope and Contents The Fielder Sheet Music Collection represents the fruit of the collecting labors of William R. and Louise Fielder. The collection consists of over 2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music-related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Accompanying the sheet music are eighty files of correspondence, ephemera, and photocopies of the collection. The collection is arranged into 43 series. Every effort has been made to preserve the provenance of the collection's series which Mr. and Mrs. Fielder utilized during their years of collecting. The series are arranged by subject, by lithographic images, by geographical region, and by the era of origin. Series 43 consists of a later accession; material here was not interfiled with the first sequence of series.