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Preferred Citation:

Ruffin-Pollard Bound Music Volume, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Acquisition Information:

Purchase.

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Scope and Contents

One bound music book with the following names penciled in the front and within the book:  Eliza Dandridge Pollard, Mary Ellen Wills and Jam. Edw. Ruffin.

Over 100 pieces of sheet music, including: Rail Road March (1828, second edition); The Harrison Song, Illustrated,  Boston (1840); Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, A Patriotic Song, Illustrated, Philadelphia (1840); Florida Polka by Albert Holland, Independent Blues Band, Baltimore (1849); Bllomer Or New Costime Polka,  New York (1851); Gilmor House Schottish, Baltimore, Illustrated (1856); The Banjo, An original Imitation of This Inimitable Instrument, by H.C. Harris,  Pennsylvania (1857).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Music
• Music--19th century.
• Music--Instruction and study--United States
• Scores
• Sheet music