Chiefly sheet music (1850s-1920s) collected by members of the Howe and Piper families of Nacogdoches, Tex.; together with wedding invitations, calling cards, invitations to military functions, newspaper clippings, and stamping patterns with designs from the 1880s.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and materials relating to other Howe family members.

Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.

In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. The book reprints a number of hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the first time in more than a century. It also provides copyright registration numbers and dates of registration for many published and unpublished songs. Finally, more than 700 notes on particular songs and numerous links provide direct access to bibliographic records or digital copies of sheet music in libraries and collections.

Collection pertains to both the Howe and Richards families. Includes mostly letters to them from friends and colleagues, and a few other items.

Contains various personal papers relating to Isaiah and Elisabeth Piper and Fred H. and Sarah E. Piper. There are receipts, account books, and correspondence - including 20 letters Ahira B. Piper wrote to his parents that describe the social and cultural life of Manchester, N.H., 1876-1877. Also contains materials relating to the Pipers' work in Belmont's government, such as: selectmen's inventories, tax assessment records, vital records, receipts correspondence, and various accounts. Also included are information regarding the First Free Baptist Church of Belmont and 48 photographs.