Puzzle 80 · A Living Musical Inheritance · Page 110 in print

Hymn Collections in Archives

Yale’s Lowell Mason collection has a notebook of photocopied title pages arranged in time order, a practical way to compare old hymn books.

Jump to a word

The words

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  1. Burmese

    A language represented in the collection.

  2. Call Number

    The catalog identifier used to browse the collection.

  3. Chronology

    The time order used to arrange the reproductions.

  4. Divinity

    The Yale library holding the described collection.

  5. Dorothy Howell

    Dorothy Agnes Howell, owner of the described slide set.

  6. Finding Aid

    The guide used to locate archival hymn materials.

  7. Lantern Slides

    The projected images illustrating hymns and writers.

  8. Marathi

    Another language represented there.

  9. Photocopy

    The reproduction method used for the title-page notebook.

  10. Richard DeLong

    The collector whose hymnals are described.

  11. Seamen

    The readers addressed by one type of hymnal collected.

  12. Sinhalese

    Another language represented there.

  13. Sioux

    The language label used in the catalog description.

  14. Temperance

    A subject represented by hymnals in the collection.

  15. Title Page

    The leaf reproduced in that notebook.

Sources

  1. HymnalsYale University Library

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