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Business Records, 1846-2004, (bulk 1880-1975) (continued)
BOX 1145-1147, 1412, 1462-1463, 1668-1676 John Church Company, 1853-1937
The Theodore Presser Company acquired all remaining shares of the John Church Company in 1930. This subseries holds the early records of the John Church Company, including catalogs, copyright documents, legal records, publication histories, and stockholder information.
Arranged alphabetically by material type and chronologically therein.
BOX 1676 Card catalog. Church Books Reprinted, undated
BOX-FOLDER 1668/15 Catalogs, 1930 and undated
Copyright certificates
BOX-FOLDER 1669/14-27 1853-1879
BOX-FOLDER 1670/1-14 1880-1890
BOX-FOLDER 1671/1-19 1891-1898
BOX-FOLDER 1672/1-15 1899-1901
BOX-FOLDER 1673/1-15 1902-1904
BOX-FOLDER 1675/1-9 1905-1908
BOX-FOLDER 1668/16-24 Copyright receipts and certificates of publication, 1909-1912
Includes: British Museum and Canadian documentation
BOX-FOLDER 1674/1-17 Copyright receipts and certificates of publication, 1913-1919
Includes: British Museum and Canadian documentation
BOX-FOLDER 1674/18-29 Copyright documents, 1920-1930
BOX-FOLDER 1412/1 Copyright holdings lists, 1903-1933
BOX-FOLDER 1145/1, 1675/10-11 Legal records, 1879-1886, 1897, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 1675/12 Manuscript record ledger, 1889-1893
BOX-FOLDER 1675/13-16 Miscellaneous correspondence and copyright documents, 1859, 1876-1910
BOX 1146-1147 Record of Band Publications, 1880-1937
BOX-FOLDER 1462/1-4 Sheet music publishing record books, 1881-1926
BOX-FOLDER 1463/1 Sheet music publishing record books, 1926-1929
BOX-FOLDER 1412/2 Stockholder registrar, 1895-1930
BOX 1413, 1689-1690 Other Publishers, 1846-1985
This subseries contains some of the earliest business records in the collection, including material from several nineteenth-century publishers who were subsequently acquired by the John Church Company, Oliver Ditson Company, or Theodore Presser Company. Materials primarily consist of copyright documents or other legal records. This subseries also holds catalogs from several twentieth-century publishing companies that were likely collected by Presser Company staff. It is noted at the folder level when the file consists only of a catalog or catalogs.
Organized alphabetically by publisher name.
BOX-FOLDER 1689/8 American String Teachers Association, 1965, 1968
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1689/9 Associated Music Publishers, undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/10 Belwin-Mills Publishing, 1982 and undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/11 Boccaccini & Spada, 1981
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/12 Boosey & Hawkes, undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/9 Breham Bros., 1909-1916
BOX-FOLDER 1689/13 Broadcast Music, Inc., 1978
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/14 Brodt Music Company, 1977
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/15 Broude Bros, 1980
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/16 Carl Fischer, Inc., 1937 and undated
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1689/17 Chappell, 1978, 1985
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1689/18 Composers Recordings, Inc., 1980
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/10 C. Y. Fonda, 1860-1869
BOX-FOLDER 1689/19 Donemus Amsterdam, 1982
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/20 Edito Musica Budapest, undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/21 Editions Muiscales, 1966 and undated
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1689/22 Elkan-Vogel, Inc., undated
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1690/11 Firth, Pond & Co., 1851-1852
BOX-FOLDER 1689/23 G. Schirmer, Inc., 1981 and undated
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1690/12 Geiger & Mund, 1867-1868
BOX-FOLDER 1689/24 Gérard Billaudot, undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/13 H. P. Danks, 1884-1889
BOX-FOLDER 1689/25 Hall & McCreary Company, 1937
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/14 Henry T. Rocholl, 1862, 1866
BOX-FOLDER 1690/15-17 J. Henry Whittemore, 1866-1869
BOX-FOLDER 1690/18 J. L. Peters, 1866-1869
BOX-FOLDER 1689/26 Jobert, 1966, 1972
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1690/19 John J. Daly, 1862-1867
BOX-FOLDER 1689/27 Leonard & Co., undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/20 Louis Mund, 1868-1869
BOX-FOLDER 1690/21 Miscellaneous publishers, 1846-1873, 1918
BOX-FOLDER 1689/28 Miscellaneous publishers, 1974
Double bass catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1689/29 Miscellaneous publishers, undated
Organette catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1689/30 Rodgers and Hammerstein Concert Library, undated
Catalog
BOX-FOLDER 1690/22-23 Root & Cady, 1862-1909
BOX-FOLDER 1413/4 Root and Sons Music Co., 1877-1881
Catalogue registrar
BOX-FOLDER 1690/24 Septimus Winner, 1850-1859, 1869
BOX-FOLDER 1689/31-32 Universal Edition, 1956, 1964, 1970, and undated
Catalogs
BOX-FOLDER 1690/25 W. A. Quincke & Co., 1916,1918
BOX-FOLDER 1690/26 William Maxwell Music Co., 1905-1908
BOX-FOLDER 1690/27 Winner & Shuster, 1854-1856
Appendix - Composer Index
The Composer Index is a list of composers in the Music series that includes the subseries and box/folder numbers where their music is located.

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