Carrie Jacobs-Bond collection
Published: 1896
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1050
Subjects: Correspondence; Composers; Photographs
Other titles: Jacobs-Bond collection,
Description: The collection contains 37 music manuscripts (18 holographs), poetic and prose sketches, and typescripts of children's books and scripts. Correspondence, principally in the form of greeting cards, including one from the publisher Gustave Schirmer, a letter from Shirley Temple, and correspondence from President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding. There are also business papers relating to Jacobs-Bond's printing business, as well as photographs and clippings; the former are of Douglas Fairbanks, Gracie Fields, John Philip Sousa, and President Harding.
Notes: Open to research.

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Carrie Jacobs-Bond Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Mrs. Elizabeth Maiden; 1982-1983.

Carrie Minetta Jacobs Bond, composer of the songs I love you truly, A perfect day, and God remembers when the world forgets, was born Aug. 11, 1861, Jamesville, Wisc. She was a performer of popular sentimental songs such as those, a literary author, and, for a time, a printer. She died Dec. 28, 1946, Glendale, Calif.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004006