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COLLECTIONS @ UM

African American Music Collection

• The Eva Jessye Collection
• Todd Duncan Collection
• Andy Kirk Collection
• The Nathaniel C. Standifer Video Archive of Oral History
• The Porgy and Bess: An American Voice Collection
• The Maxwell O.Reade Collection

American Music Institute

• MUSA Archives
• AMS Midwest Chapter Archive
• Jazz Standards on Record (1900-1942) Tape Collection

Clements Library

• Andrew Law Papers
• Music Division

Bentley Historical Library

• William Albright Collection
• Michigan Sheet Music Collection
• Remick Music Corporation
• UM School of Music Archives

Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments

UM Music Library

• Music Library Rare Book Room
  Catalogued in Mirlyn
  
  
• UM Online Catalogue

UM Libraries

• Special Collections

American Sheet Music Collection

• Edison Collection (100,000 items)
  held at Buhr Storage Library
  pre-1860 in Mirlyn online catalogue
  remainder uncatalogued
  See article in Notes by Calvin Elliker
  
  
• Montgomery Collection (20,000 items)
  songs sorted in title order
  contains: late 19th and early 20th centuries;
  jazz and minstrel music, WWI songs, ragtime
  
  
• Corning Collection
  Indexed in Card file
  
  
• Baltimore Sheet Music Collection
  Musical theater music

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