A collection of unique and interesting scans of early American books and booklets on various subjects.

Native American Music A collection of 19th Century American periodical articles about Native American songs and music, including music notation of many songs and chants. Scans of the articles prepared for easy printing, in a PDF file.
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Brief biography of the Author:

" A few years back I thought I was past my “best before” date and I needed the spiritual support my grandfather had always given me. My memories of him and his tales form the basis of these stories. Montreal (and Weir in the summers) was my home for about two decades. The stories ended when my grandfather died on August 3, 1960. I was twelve.

Over the years I was able to record two vinyl LPs and two CDs (all my own work) and one LP with other musicians and writers. I earned a bachelor’s degree in education (secondary) and taught for twenty-two years, became an emergency medical responder for six years, a volunteer firefighter for fifteen, and a town councilor for two year"

The music career of TB Murdoch, known to the music world as "Bruce Murdoch" included recording for Elektra Records and performing at many forums and coffee houses during the heyday of the folk revival and the singer/songwriter movement in Greenwich Village during the 1960s that produced Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary, Eric Andersen, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs and many more. He also performed at the Newport Folk Festival, in Carnegie Hall and recorded an album produced by Richie Havens for his label and an album produced by Radio Canada.
He has recently recorded 2 new collections of his latest songs.

"The Grampy Tales and Stories"

Baseball Extras

Baseball vs Opera - A Musical Post Card
"Casey At The Bat", one of the early publications of the poem,
with illustrations.
Right Off The Bat and Baseball Ballads - 2 full books of baseball poems and ballads
Baseball ABC - An 1885 children's book using baseball to teach the alphabet, with illustrations.

Unusual, Amazing, Magical,Wonderful
& Often Unexplainable Events
In Early America

The Early American X-Files

A Book of Tales
about Leprechauns and Treasure
In PDF and epub formats

About the Leprechaun….
Clever Tom and the Leprechaun
The Leprechaun in the Garden
The Three Leprechauns
The Little Shoe
Dreaming Tim Jarvis
Rent-Day
The Legend of Ballytowtas Castle
The Countess Kathleen O'Shea
The Story of Conn-Eda; or, The Golden Apples of Lough Erne
A Unique Little Tale…
The Altar Cup in Aagerup
Treasure & Magical Plants

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This is a 60 page book containing simple parlour magic tricks using music and sound, many simple projects using music and sound, and even a section about learning ventriloquism and instructions how to build an "aeolian harp". We gathered these interesting projects from old books, published in the 19th century. We have prepared this as a PDF file, for easy printing on standard size paper.

Here is an example of the first project in the book:

ACOUSTIC RAINBOW

A sounding-plate made of brass, nine inches long and half a line in thickness, covered with a layer of water, may be employed to produce a rainbow in a chamber which admits the sun. On drawing a violin bow strongly across the plate, so as to produce the greatest possible intensity of tone, numerous drops of water fly perpendicularly and laterally upwards. The size of the drops is smaller as the tone is higher. The inner and outer rainbows are very beautifully seen in these ascending and descending drops, when the artificial shower is held opposite to the sun. When the eyes are close to the falling drops, each eye sees its appropriate rainbow; and four rainbows are perceived at the same time, particularly if the floor of the room is of a dark colour. The experiment succeeds best if, when a finger is placed under the middle of the plate, and both of the angular points at one side are supported, the tone is produced at a point of the opposite side, a fourth of its length from one of its angles. An abundant shower of drops is thus obtained.

The contents of the PDF book include:

Acoustic Rainbow
Transmission of Sound
Progress of Sound
Sound Turning Corners
To Tell The Distance of Thunder
Hearing by the Touch
Conversation for the Death
Glass Broken by the Voice
Figures Produced by Sound
Transmitted Vibration
Double Vibration
Champagne and Sound
Music from Palisades
Theory of the "Jews Harp"
Music of the Snail
Tune a Guitar Without Assistance of the Ear
Music From Glass or Metal Rods
Tuning-Fork Flute Player
Musical Bottles
Theory of Whispering
Theory of the Voice
Sound Along a Wall
Sound Made Audible By Night Than By Day
Musical Echo
The Magic Whistle
Hearing with the Teeth
Inexplicable Motion and Sound
The Gong Poker
A Musical Flame
Musical Glasses
The Glass Harmonicon
Musical Tumblers
A Wood Harmonicon
The Pennywhisle and How To Play It
Musical Figures Produced by Sound
Figure Produced By Sound
Visible Vibration
Ventriloquism Made Easy
Ventriloquism and Polyphony
Aeolian Harp Plans

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International Music
in 19th Century American Periodicals

Scans of the complete articles, including music notation examples. PDFs are all prepared for easy printing on standard size paper.

PDF-1
Chinese Music
Traditional Music of the Spanish Pyrenees
Traditional Music of the French Pyrenees
Holy Week in Seville

PDF-2
Some Japanese Melodies
Ballads and Ballad Music Illustrating Shakespeare
Folk Songs

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19th Century American Periodical Articles
About Caricature, Posters and
Master Engravers

Scans of the complete articles, including many high quality contemporary engravings. PDFs are all prepared for easy printing on standard size paper.

 

PDF 1
Contemporary American Caricature

PDF 2
Early Political Caricature in America

PDF 3
American Posters, Past and Present

 

PDFs 4 & 5
American Engravers - 1
American Engravers - 2

PDF files contain scanned images of some of the best engravers in the 19th Century American periodicals.

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For Dog Lovers.....

Scans of many original 19th Century American articles about dogs of all kinds. With some great art and engravings. Prepared as PDF files in an an easy to print standard size format.

Typical Dogs 1

Typical Dogs 2

Toy Dogs

 

Dogs Described And Illustrated

The Coon Dog

 

Sporting Dogs

To A Dog's Memory - poem

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Rince na h'Eireann A 48 page book, published in 1907, giving simple and clear diagram instructions for Irish dances, and a list of the tunes to use with the dances. We have scanned and prepared a PDF file of this entire book for easy and high quality printing on standard size paper. Price - $3.50 After your payment is processed you will quickly be sent by email the download link.