This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
World’s most unsuccessful success story collects American sheet music
Harry Dichter of Philadelphia describes himself as a rare private collector of American sheet music. At 65 he stores about 150000 songs at home and in a warehouse while working as a waiter. His book titled America Sings Its History draws on songs from the 1790s onward to illustrate American development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wee Pui She
Ladelphia
Philadelphia
NEA
Harry Dichter
Philadelphian
America
Dichter
Hull
Tom Thumb
Commodore Nutt
Wellie
United States Military Academy
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
West Point
Stephen Foster
L. C
Foster Hall
University of Pittsburgh
John Howard Payne
England
Sadler’s Wells Theater
London