Music

Lind_Jenny

Rambling Reminiscences of Castle Garden [published Dec. 18, 1881]

jpkntz March 1, 2024

Discussin’ with a very old friend the other...

fiddle

Joe Drexel and His Fiddle [published Sep. 27, 1885]

jpkntz February 10, 2024

For some time prior to the late Republican...

flowersong

Popular Songs in Old New York and Their Composers [published May 6, 1883]

jpkntz December 28, 2023

I heard a street band the other day...

menken_adah_isaacs2

The Luck of Mazeppa and the Fall of a Prima Donna [published May 7, 1882]

jpkntz December 8, 2023

I have before alluded to one of the...

Rainer_Tyrolean_singers

Foreign Orchestras in New York City [published Dec. 20, 1885]

jpkntz October 31, 2023

New York is this season and has been...

meiggshenry

The Music Patronage of Henry Meiggs [published Mar. 25, 1883]

jpkntz October 26, 2023

People are talkin’ now of the monster musical...

citycriesbook

The Street Criers of New York [published Aug. 16, 1885]

jpkntz October 5, 2023

The street cries of New York used to...

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1840s New York: Quakers, Millerites, Native Americans [published June 11, 1882]

jpkntz September 23, 2023

Every now and then there is quite a...

kellogg_clara

Millionaires’ Songbirds…and Marryatt [published Dec. 25, 1881]

jpkntz September 21, 2023

The recent death of Col. Stebbins, who brought...

camdenamboywreck1855

How Sandy Spencer Got to New York [published May 3, 1885]

jpkntz August 25, 2023

Sandy Spencer is dead, and the papers have...