Iconography

Note: Photos on sheet music or in newspapers

Adams, Mamie S.
…..There is room in heaven for you, by Wallace D. Adams (arr. Margarite Brown), 1947

Banks, Lucille
....When I call upon my Savior's name. M2146.B



Bowles, Lillian M: CD 4/11/42, 9

Bradley, J. Robert: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Butts, Magnolia: NYASN 8/23/41, 17

Cleveland Gospel Choral Union: CCP 11/29/41, 12A

Derricks, Clevant: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Dorsey, Thomas A: NYASN 8/23/41, 17

Frye, Professor Theodore: CD 8/28/37, 21; NYASN 8/23/41, 17

Gayle, James E.: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Good Will Singers: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Hines, James Earl: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Isaac, E.W.D: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Martin, Sallie: NYASN 8/23/41, 17





(Above picture of Lela Oglesby)

Oglesby, Lela
…..On this rock, by E.N. Adams. 1950

Shelby, Thomas H.: PC, 3/11/39, 16

Smith, Willie Mae Ford: NYASN 8/23/41, 17

Newspapers

CD: Chicago Defender
CCP: Cleveland Call and Post
NYASN: New York Amsterdam Star News
PC: Pittsburgh Courier
WAA: Washington Afro American

Historical Publishers

Note: Publishers are mostly African American.

Aikens & Lafayette, 438 East 93rd Street, Chicago, IL
Alford Music Studio, Route 4, Box 596, Houston, TX
Anne Graham Brooks Music Studio, 27 State Street, Brooklyn, NY
Austin Studio of Music, 639 North 46th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Austin's Music Room, 741 Indiana, Toledo, OH
Battle & Odom, 1541 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Beatrice Brown, 1021 Congress Avenue, Indianapolis
Bernard Battle, 1723 Benning Road, NE, Washington, DC
Blue Pearl Music Corp, Box 144, Deal, NJ
Bowles Music House, 4640 State Street, Chicago, IL
Bowles Music House/Book Store, 1662 S. State Street, Chicago, IL
Brown's Music House, 1021 Congress, Indianapolis, IN
Campbell & Williams, 388 Orleans Street, Memphis, TN
Campbell & Williams, 328 22nd Avenue, North, Nashville, TN
Campbell & Williams Music Studio, 388 So. Orleans Street, Memphis, TN
Carr's Music Studio, 343 East 101st Street, New York, NY
Clara Ward Publications, 3800 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Dorothy Butler, 26775 Stanford Avenue, Inkster, MI
E.A. Anderson, 999 Cleveland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
E.W.D. Isaac, 409 Gay Street, Nashville, TN
Elma and Carl's Music Publications, 652 Owens St, Detroit, MI
Emmet A. Anderson, 999 Cleveland Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
Estelle V. McKinley Banks, 393 Gray Street, NW, Atlanta, GA
Famous Blujay Singers Studio of Gospel Music, 3609 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago
First Church of Deliverance, 4315 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL
First House of Prayer, 6555 S. Cottage Grove, Avenue, Chicago, IL
Frazier-Cleveland Company, PO Box 73321, Los Angeles, CA
Good Shepherd Music House, 9 West 16th Avenue, Gary, IN
Juanita Armstead, 5085 Page Boulevard, St. Louis, MO
Handy Brothers, 1650 Broadway, New York, NY
Harmonica Player (Willie Lou Farmer) 744 East 44th Street, Chicago
Lazarus A. Aaronson, Winchendon, MA
Lela Oglesby, 155-20 113th Avenue, Jamaica, NY
Lindsey L. Byrd, 1269 Everett Drive, Dayton, OH
Lucie E. Campbell, 711 Saxon Avenue, Memphis, TN
Lucie E. Campbell's Music Studio, 388 South Orleans Street, Memphis, TN
Ola Caldwell, 226 # 90th Pl, Chicago, IL
M&M Aikens, 9435 South Harvard Avenue, Chicago, IL
M.M. Aikens Publishers, 5209 Inadale, Los Angeles, CA
M. Samuel C. Baynes, 431 Rice Street, Danville, VA
Mable Banks, 722 Hobart Place, NW, Washington, DC
Maria P. Brown, 810 North Burns Street, Philadelphia, PA
Martin & Morris Studio, 4315 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL
Robert Anderson, W. 16th Avenue, Gary, IN
Roberta Martin Studio of Music, 69 East 43rd Street, Chicago, IL
Roberta Martin Studio of Music, 1308 E.47th Street, Chicago, IL
Sallie Martin's House of Music, 233 E. 79th Street, Chicago, IL
Simmons and Akers, P.O. Box 5104, Los Angeles, CA
Simmons and Akers Gospel Music Studio, 770 East 51st St., Los Angeles, CA
Simmons and Akers Music Room, 4868 So. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Samuel E. Brown, 355 East 35th Street, Los Angeles, CA
Sister Anne C. Graham, 649 North 40th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Theodore R. Frye, 1507 East 55th Street, Chicago, IL
Thomas A. Dorsey, 4154 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago
Wallace D. Adams, 5757 South LaSalle, Chicago, IL
Wards House of Music, 3800 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Watkins and Bell's Studio of Music, PO Box 1298, Newark, NJ
Watkins Music Studio, 314 Norfolk Street, Newark, NJ
Wellington Adams, 84 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Illustrations

PAINTING

Subject: Mahalia Jackson
Book: Dover, Eric. "American Negro Art." Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1960. p49. (painting by Charles White)

RECORD (LP)

The White Church Record Company was set up by Deb Dwyer in Kansas City, MO.

SHEET MUSIC COVER

Subject: Alex Bradford/The Bradford Specials
Title of sheet music: "On My Way Home"
Publisher: Chicago: Martin and Morris Studio, 1953

Preface

This is a list of gospel songs composed and/or arranged by African Americans. Included also are songs about African Americans, even in cases where the identity of the composer or arranger is not known. For example, Lazaras Aaronson dedicated a song ("God didn't curse me when He made me black") to Congressman William L. Dawson. While we are not sure that Aaronson was African American, we are certain that William L. Dawson. In addition, Aaronson used W.C. Handy as his publisher.

The following samples should explain how entries are listed:

1. By Title

AFTER IT'S ALL OVER. 1953
.....Alex Bradford

The above entry reads: Title (After it’s all over), Date of Publication (1953), Personal name (Alex Bradford)

2. By Personal Name

CLARK, SYLVIA
.....Teach me to pray. 1965 (arr. Roberta Martin)

The above entry reads: Personal name (Sylvia Clark), Title (Teach me to pray), Date of publication (1965), Arranger (Roberta Martin)

3. By Arranger

WOODS (JR), KENNETH
.....All that I am (it's by God's grace). 1961. Margaret Aikens
.....Brighter day ahead, A. 1958. Margaret Aikens

The above entry reads: Kenneth Woods (arranger), All that I am (Title). 1961 (Date of Publication, Margaret Aikens (Composer)


Additionally, in cases where two personal names are listed (i.e. one person composed the music and the other wrote the words), we will establish an entry for both names.

Generally, whenever an arranger’s name appears on a piece of sheet music, the entry will indicated it clearly.

Also, entries that are bracketed may not be in the collection, but are included in this list because the titles were listed on the back of a piece of sheet music. For example:

Wallace D. Adams. [Tired of Wandering]. The song "Tired of Wandering" was listed on a sheet music back cover ad under the heading, "New Songs by Wallace D. Adams". For those pieces in brackets, we did not locate a piece of sheet music. We only listed the title.

Finally, we included a list of historical publishers -mostly African American- as we found them listed on the sheet music. We also include the names of individuals whose picture appears on sheet music.

Sample iconography entry:

Oglesby, Lela
....On this rock, by E.N. Adams. 1950

(An entry for a piece of sheet music with Lela Oglesby on the cover. Title: On this rock. Personal Name: E. N. Adams. Date of Publication: 1950)

Finally, you may also want to visit Sam's African American Spiritual Index at http://samp2211.blogspot.com/

Different Call Numbers

Some music will have a call number other than M2199. For example, PA0000053369.

In the above example, the item was found in the copyright catalog (http://cocatalog.loc.gov/) and should be requested using the call number beginning with PA.

Example:

BRAND NEW. 1978
…..Thomas A. Whitfield (PA0000053369)

Further information about the above it may not be listed (i.e. "first line of the song" etc., because the citation was taken from a database. The sheet music was not previewed as was the case for sheet music under the call number, M2199.