Box 19

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sheet Music, 1864-1985 and undated, contains various pieces of locally significant sheet music. Included in this series is a folder of unidentified and undated music manuscripts that may have been produced by Augustana music students or local composers. The minstrel songs, 1864-1916 and undated, were designed to be sung by African-American minstrels (or white minstrels in blackface), and much of this printed music includes images of racial stock characters and racist terminology. The school...