Laura Harriss Howell Music Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal music library of Laura Harriss Howell and includes opera librettos, music books, and sheet music meant to be sung and played on piano, organ or guitar by musicians in the home. Published primarily in the first half of the nineteenth century but including some Confederate imprints, the music reflects the parlor music tastes of the period and contains popular part-singing classics of the day.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Creator
- Howell, Laura M Harriss, 1836-1911 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is unprocessed. Contact staff at the Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History (csencah@uncw.edu) for information on access to this collection.
Copyright Statement
Copyright retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Extent
13 Containers (Contains 2 document boxes, 2 bankers boxes and 9 flat boxes.)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition Information
This collected was donated by Laura Howell Norden Schorr, granddaughter of Laura Harriss Howell, on March 26, 1981.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Laura Harriss Howell Music Collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository