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(Brown University Library) "1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music..., includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."

(Music Division, Library of Congress)

Digitized images of the Chopin Early Editions collection at the University of Chicago.

Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.

(Lewis Music Library at M.I.T.) "Popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."

(Music Division, Library of Congress)

(The New York Public Library) Searchable database of archival material held by the Performing Arts Library, including "music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz and dance music". Click "music" or "browse index" to limit search to sheet music.

"A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900."

"Popular American music [from] 1780 to 1960." Includes covers and music for P.D. works, covers only for works still under copyright.

Includes complete scores for operas, art songs, orchestral/chamber/piano/solo instrumental music literature (Indiana University site)

Free sheet music indexed by composer or editor.