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Creator: Doane, W. Howard (William Howard), 1832-1915 Date: 1883 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Editor William Howard Doane (1832–1915) enjoyed collaborations with prominent hymnodists and composers like Fanny Crosby and Robert Lowry, navigating a distinguished publishing career with Baptist denominational outlets and major houses in New York City and Philadelphia before settling in the Ohi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Willis, George W., 1864–1934 Date: 1892 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This gospel volume includes late nineteenth-century selections that accompanied the invitations issued by George W. Willis (1864–1934), a Quaker evangelist who preached at revivals alongside his wife, sought-after temperance lecturer Genevieve Kinsel Willis (1864–1940). Kinsel Willis later earned... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Unseld, B. C. (Benjamin Carl), 1843-1923 and Kieffer, Aldine S., 1840-1904 Date: 1877 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: This late April 1877 volume features singing school songs and a variety of church tunes, including nineteenth-century standards and anthems. Temple Star is the first Ruebush, Kieffer and Company publication issued using the seven-shape notational system devised by Jesse B. Aikin. From the 1850s t... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Shelton, T. J., 1849–1929 and Rosecrans, J. H. (James Holmes), 1845-1926 Date: 1876 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: The preface of Polished Pearls identifies congregations unable to afford full-length hymnals as the volume’s primary audience. This target group likely included the Restorationist church pastored by compiler T. J. Shelton (1849–1929) in Arcola, Illinois. Collaborating with Ohio Valley church musi... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Glenn, R. A. Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: Despite its Anabaptist roots, the Ruebush-Kieffer Company did not issue this volume, its first of temperance songs, until 1881. By that time, temperance was no longer the purview of charities and individual denominations, but rather a growing international movement. Editor R. A. Glenn had been a ... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Corlett, D. S., Moore, John E., Messer, L. C., Aycock, Jarrette E., Reinbarger, C. C., Reep, George D., Wells, Kenneth, Wallin, Henry B., Lillenas, Haldor, 1885-1959, and Petticord, E. W. (Emory W.), 1880- Date: 1925 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: New Songs of the Old Faith features new compositions, “favorite hymns,” and gospel songs popular at its date of publication. Edited by Norwegian American composer Haldor Lillenas (1885–1959), the volume has ties to the Church of the Nazarene, an offshoot of the nineteenth-century Holiness movemen... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit -
Creator: Vaughan, James D., 1863-1941 Date: 1908 Contributing Institution: Sounding Spirit Description: James D. Vaughan (1863–1941) began publishing a series of successful gospel annuals in 1903, later implementing innovative marketing strategies that would become white southern gospel industry standards. By Silver Trumpet’s 1908 publication date, the James D. Vaughan Company was still developing ... View Full Item at Sounding Spirit