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Title	American Song Sheets
View collection at	http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/songsheets/
Description	This collection includes approximately 1800 broadsides and song sheets from nineteenth-century America. Many of these single sheets include illustrations of women (e.g., "The Soldier's Farewell to his Bride"). The full text of the lyrics can be searhed; words such as "love" "mother" and "wife" appear in many of the songs in the collection.
Subject	Civil War, 1861-1865 Love songs Popular music Songs Women
Place	United States
Time Period	19th Century
Publisher	Duke University Libraries
Primary Sources	Broadsides Song sheets
Thumbnail caption	Pretty Sally

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