MSS 99: New Haven Music Collection, 1798-1976

Creator: Benjamin Jepson (1832-1914); Harold Earle Johnson (b. 1903)
    
Extent: 2 ft. (600 items)

Description: The collection contains sheet music, music books, programs, scrapbooks, press clippings, and other papers, relating to various musical performances and societies in New Haven, Conn. It includes papers relating to Benjamin Jepson (1832-1914), first supervisor of music in New Haven public schools, and to Harold Earle Johnson (b. 1903), music editor of the New Haven Register and instructor of music at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

Research Topics: Music in New Haven in the 19th and 20th centuries; history of sheet music and music books; music education