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• Songs for the union : a collection of patriotic, national, original, and selected songs; several of which have been written to suit the times. (A. Winch, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some songs we sing at Rochester. ([Rochester, 1904), by University of Rochester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Good old songs we used to sing, '61 to '65 : dedicated to the veterans of the war of the rebellion : first published in 1882. (O. H. Oldroyd, 1902), by Osborn H. Oldroyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prohibited song (Firth, Pond & Co., 1862), by John W. Hutchinson, E. L. Welling, Robert Boyd Yard, John Greenleaf Whittier, Pond & Co Firth, United States. Army of the Potomac, and Hutchinson Family (Singers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lone heart (Philadelphia, PA : W.R. Smith, [1865], 1865), by Eastburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rough and ready songster : embellished with twenty-five splendid engravings, illustrative of the American victories in Mexico (Nafis & Cornish, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• I.W.W. songs to fan the flames of discontent (Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. : Industrial Workers of the World, [1922 or 1923], 1922), by Archie Green, John Neuhaus, Minnie Abbott Dalton, Katie Phar, and Industrial Workers of the World (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character and results of the war ([New York, New York] : [Tribune Association], [1863], 1863), by Benjamin F. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lider bukh (Frayhayṭ Gezangs Fareyn un Frayhayṭ Mandolin Orḳesṭer, 1923), by Ill.) Frayhayṭ Gezangs Fareyn (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)

• Serenata sul Canal Grande. (Venezia : Nel Premiato Stabilimento di G. Antonelli, 1844., 1844), by Germain Delavigne, Eugène Scribe, Pietro Beltrame, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, and Antonio Granara (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pulaskiville Sunday School, Christmas 1891. (Pulaskiville : [publisher not identified], 1891., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 88 Favourite Carols and Hymns for Christmas (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ancient English Christmas carols, 1400-1700 (Duffield, 1915), by Edith Rickert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good King Wenceslas : a carol (Cornish Brs., 1895), by J. M. Neale, Arthur Gaskin, and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of carols (Published at the Oxford University Press by H. Wilford], 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festive songs for Christmas. (Shakespeare Head Press, 1906), by Shakespeare Head Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas carols. Series I. (Nazareth, Pa. : Chas. D. Kreider, [between 1870 and 1890?], 1870), by Chas. D. Kreider (page images at HathiTrust)

• A booke of Christmas carols, illuminated from ancient manuscripts in the British museum. (J. Cundall, 1846), by Joseph 1818-1895 Cundall and Brandard John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carols on Christmas Day ([England, 1630), by George Herbert, G. E. P. Arkwright, Thomas Phillipps, Thomas Salmon, Thomas Sternhold, William Austin, Susanna Beckwith, Judith Beckwith, Hester Beckwith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ta kalanda holēs tēs Hellados : ētoi dēmōdē heortastika asmata adomena kata tas heortas tēs Gennēseōs, Peritomēs kai Vaptiseōs tou Christou, kai diaphora alla panēgyrika, kai ethimotypika adomena eis hōrismenas panēgyreis kai epochas (Ēlias N. Diakaios, 1923), by Dēmētrios Kalligeropoulos (page images at HathiTrust)

• Koli︠a︡dy i drugie naĭbolee upotrebli︠a︡emye t︠︡serkovnyi p︠ie︡sni ([s.n.] ;, 1926), by Ivan G. Borukh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio per canto e orchestra diviso in due parti : parte I. Dalla morte al sepolcro, parte II. La risurrezione. (Milano : [publisher not identified], [1898?], 1898), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Milano ; Roma ; Napoli ; Palermo ; Parigi ; Londra : G. Ricordi & C. Editori-Stampatori, [1899], 1899), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Milano ; Roma ; Napoli ; Palermo ; Leipzig ; Buenos Aires ; S. Paulo : G. Ricordi & C. ; Paris : Soc. Anon. des Éditions Ricordi ; London : G. Ricordi & Co., (London) Ltd. ; New York : G. Ricordi & Co., Inc., [1899], 1899), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Milano : Stabilimento Pontificio A. Bertarelli, 1899., 1899), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Vicenza : Stab. Tipografico S. Giuseppe, 1899., 1899), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Roma : Tipo-Litografica Miliani e Filosini, 1898., 1898), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La risurrezione di Cristo : oratorio in due parti per canto ed orchestra (Torino : G. Muletti, 1899., 1899), by Lorenzo Perosi (page images at HathiTrust)
• La resurrezione di Cristo : oratorio per soli, cori e orchestra in due parti (Roma : Coi Tipi dell'Off. Pol. Laziale, [1898?], 1898), by Lorenzo Perosi and O. M. Ainardi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christy's new songster and black joker : containing all the most popular and original songs, choruses, stump speeches, witticisms, jokes, conundrums, etc., etc., as sung and delivered by the world-renowned Christy's Minstrels at their opera houses (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868), by William E. Christy, E. Byron Christy, and Christy Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-songs of the American Negro; a collection of unprinted texts preceded by a general survey of the traits of Negro song ([n.p., 1923), by Nettie Fitzgerald McAdams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's plantation melodies, no. 4 (Fisher & Brother, 1854), by Edwin Pearce Christy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gospel hymns (Thomas S. Wilcox, in the 1st century) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revival and camp meeting minstrel : containing the best hymns and spiritual songs, original and selected. (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choruses adapted to standard hymns : a collection for revival services, prayer meetings, etc. (Wm. H. Behney, 1890), by William H. Behney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choruses adapted to standard hymns : a collection for revival services, prayer meetings, etc. (Lebanon Courier Print., 1891), by William H. Behney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selection of the best "psalms & hymns & spiritual songs" (Printed by J. Baab., 1834), by John Winebrenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of hymns selected from various authors (T. Buck, for the Evangelical Association, 1842), by Evangelical Association of North America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selection of the best psalms and hymns and spiritual songs (J. Winebrenner, 1848), by John Winebrenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revival hymns and choruses (Crider & Bro., 1891), by Isaac H. Albright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frohe Botschaftslieder (W.B. Musselman?], 1887), by W. B. Musselman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camp-meeting chorister (Leary & Getz?, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns and sacred songs : words only (Biglow & Main ;, 1875), by P. P. Bliss and Ira David Sankey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns no. 5 : with standard selections : words only (Biglow & Main Co. ;, 1887), by James McGranahan, Ira David Sankey, D. W. Whittle, George C. Stebbins, Dwight Lyman Moody, Geo. F. Pentecost, John Church Company, and Biglow & Main (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns nos. 1 to 6 : 739 hymns (John Church Co. :, 1895), by P. P. Bliss, George C. Stebbins, Ira David Sankey, and James McGranahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revival hymns (James H. Earle, 1870), by A. B. Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgrim songster (Printed for the publisher, by Parke & Bennett, 1848), by Stephen D. Shaffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel hymns (John Church Co. ;, 1891), by Ira David Sankey and Walter Rauschenbusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• New hymns and solos (Morgan and Scott, in the 1880s), by Ira David Sankey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lieder-Texte für die deutschen Sänger Amerika's (New York City : Julius Drescher, [1896], 1896), by Julius Drescher and Eugen Bamberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish sunburst songster (R. M. De Witt, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Favorite "Irish patriotic" songster. (R. M. De Witt, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)

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