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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 NDLPCOLL@loc.gov "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> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=