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- ↑ "[19th-century manuscript of songs, piano music, and exercises]".
- ↑ "Look What We Got! How Inherited Data Drives Decision-Making: UNC-Chapel Hill's 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection".
- ↑ "The Terpsichora polka, composed and dedicated to the Misses Reece, by Chas. Milsom Junr. :: Playmakers Repertory Company Playbills".
- ↑ Cardell, Victor (2002). "19th Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project, and: 19th-Century California Sheet Music, and: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collection of Brown University, and: Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection, and: Florida Sheet Music Collection, and: Historic American Sheet Music, and: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Duke University, and: Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection, and: Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-18". Notes. 58 (4): 889–900. doi:10.1353/not.2002.0063. S2CID 201787993.
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