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Pierce family papers, 1652-1985
The Robert Pierce (c. 1600-1664) papers, c. 1652, consist of a single unrecorded deed, which relates to Robert Pierce's purchase of six acres plowing land in ...
Love is lightest
Cover depicts Justice holding a scale, with Cupid on one side of the scale and a butterfly on the other. The butterfly weighs more than Cupid.
I have flown from the cup of the blue hare-bell: the fairy's song
Cover depicts a fairy hovering over a child sleeping near a river.
Awake! Awake, mine love!
Cover depicts a man calling up to a woman outside on a balcony. He holds a guitar. A man with two horses waits in the distance.
Oh! Why hast thou taught me to love thee?
Cover depicts a man and woman in a wooded area. The man appears to be wooing the woman.
Isle of beauty fare thee well!
Cover depicts a man and a woman in a small sailboat looking across the water at an island with a Greco-Roman-styled building on it.
The corsair's bride
Cover depicts a woman seated on a rocky beach, a lyre propped against the rock behind her. Ships with tattered sails, one of them probably a pirate ship, are ...
New York, O what a charming city!
Cover depicts New York City, as seen from across the water.
The beauties of Scottish and Irish melody: no. 1
Cover depicts a woman playing the piano forte.
I would I were a fairy, or, bright thoughts for dark hours
Cover depicts a fairy asleep in a grotto.
Amy Robsart to the Earl of Leicester
Cover depicts Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Oh swift we go, a sleighing song
Cover depicts two men watching a large sleigh with many passengers pass them. Snow covers the landscape and four horses pull the carriage.
Woodman! Spare that tree!
Cover depicts a gentleman talking to a farmer holding an axe underneath a large tree. The farmer's house and water well are visible.
Kind, kind and gentle is she
Cover depicts a woman standing in front of a garden gate.
Old Tippecanoe : a patriotic Whig song
Cover depicts William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) at various stages in his military and political career.
The lament of the Irish emigrant
Cover depicts a man, presumably an Irish immigrant, leaning against a fence.
The golden dream
Cover depicts a man and a woman talking beneath an arbor.
Song of the Greek Amazon
Cover depicts a Greek man standing on a rampart next to a cannon. He is holding a knife and sword. Two men restraining a horse are behind him.
Grand Harmonicon, musical glasses
Cover depicts a Grand Harmonicon, with lid open to reveal "musical glasses."
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! : the prisoner's hope
Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Wake, Nicodemus
This image employs racist stereotypes. This sheet music cover depicts a man leaning his head out of a large knothole in a tree.
Just before the battle, Mother
Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Listen to the mocking bird
Cover depicts a mocking bird on a tree branch.
Three fishers went sailing
Cover depicts a sailboat.
Scenes of happiness
Cover depicts men and women cutting and pitching hay in a field. A windmill is in the background. A gentleman (presumably the landowner) assists a woman riding ...
Home, sweet home
Cover depicts a woman seated under a tree. A thatched cottage is in the background.
Would I were with thee
Cover depicts a man seated near a river, a mandolin at his side.
Little Nell
Cover depicts Nell on on her deathbed on one side, and her grandfather kneeling over a grave on the other.
He left my snow clad hills
Cover depicts the head and shoulders of opera singer Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (1820-1887) in three-quarter profile.
The blind boy
Cover depicts a seated boy surrounded by other boys and a woman. One boy is playing a mandolin.