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Mills Music Library Digital Collections

The Mills Music Library Digital Collections provide online access to some of the unique materials found in the Special Collections Department of Mills Music Library, including the Wisconsin Music Archives. Among these online collections you will find thousands of pieces of published sheet music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, page-by-page access to one of the most important sources of Civil War era band music, discographies of our holdings of recordings by two important Wisconsin recording companies, and an online repository of the Wisconsin ethnic heritage materials collected by Helene Stratman-Thomas.

During the Civil War, the town of Brodhead, Wisconsin, was the hometown of a band associated with the 1st Brigade of the Union Army. Their partbooks were preserved by the descendants of the band members and were acquired in the 1960s. The online collection presents one of the very few extant collections of this repertory.

Helene Stratman-Thomas traveled through Wisconsin between 1936 and 1947 collecting recordings of ethnic music, as well as taking photographs and making notes on cultural practices of various Wisconsin immigrant groups. The online collection provides full access to this significant collection.

The sheet music collection consists of three sub-collections: the Americana Sheet Music Collection, the Popular Sheet Music Collection, and the Wisconsin Sheet Music Database. The Americana and Popular collections provide bibliographic access to our extensive collection of sheet music published in America in the nineteenth century. The Wisconsin Sheet Music Database identifies sheet music publications either published in Wisconsin, written by a Wisconsin composer, or with a thematic connection to Wisconsin.

The recordings databases provide discographic access to the catalogs of the Cuca and Paramount Recording companies. These companies were important for their activity in recording early blues, ethnic music, and rock during the mid twentieth century.

Mills Music Library Digital Collections

The Mills Music Library Digital Collections provide online access to some of the unique materials found in the Special Collections Department of Mills Music Library, including the Wisconsin Music Archives. Among these online collections you will find thousands of pieces of published sheet music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, p…
Image Source: Dance and other instrumental music from the Joseph Webster Collection

Mills Music Library Digital CollectionsIn the Collection

  • Maailman Matti
  • Lazy Sam
  • Russian-bulgar
  • Pride of society
  • Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rombolski and Mrs. Catherine Jezewski
  • Cân a mawl : llyfr hymnau a thonau Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Unol Dalaethau yr America
  • Shipwreck
  • Impromptu-pastorale
  • Ed Kutzler
  • Gen.al Bem's Hungarian galop
  • Milwaukee Carnival march
  • Aura Jamboree
  • Leonard Finseth, Gale Perry Andresen, Lloyd LaPlant and Truman Sorenson
  • Flowers of St. Petersburg
  • Sacred vocal and organ music partbook
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In the collection

  • 78-rpm Recordings Collection
  • Ach Ya!: German Music in WI
  • American Sacred Music
  • Americana Sheet Music Collection
  • Arnold Munkel Collection
  • Bruce Bollerud Collection
  • Cuca Records Database
  • Civil War Band Collection
  • Down Home Dairyland Collection
  • Ethnic Music in Northern WI & MI
  • Fiddlers contest scrapbook
  • Folksongs of Another America
  • German-American Music Project Collection
  • In Tune With Tradition : Wisconsin Folk Musical Instruments
  • John Berquist Slovenian Recordings Collection
  • Joseph Webster Music Manuscripts
  • Leizime Brusoe (1870 - 1949) Scrapbook
  • Leonard Finseth Collection
  • LeRoy Larson Collection
  • Mayrent Collection of Yiddish Recordings
  • Paramount Records Discography
  • Polish Folk Song Collection
  • Popular Sheet Music Collection
  • Tams-Witmark Collection
  • Visual Materials in Mills Music Library
  • Wisconsin Folksong Collection
  • Wisconsin Sheet Music Database

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  • Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University
  • Center for the Study of Upper Midwest Culture
  • American Folklife Center. Library of Congress
  • Turning Points. Wisconsin Historical Society

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