Charles Wakefield Cadman -- Joseph Cherniavsky -- George M. Cohan -- James Dietrich -- W. Frank Harling -- Johnny Mercer -- Max Steiner

Many of the photographs in this series contain dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and ableist language. In the majority of cases, the descriptions of people have been transcribed from the photographs themselves. Some of the photographs have been stamped with titles (likely by the original photographic studio); other titles are handwritten. In cases where photographs have no title, descriptions derive from a typewritten inventory of the collection that may have been provided by the donor, or may have been created by an archivist.

Written in unknown hand. Contains the Italian setting of "Return O God of Hosts," used in the pasticcio opera Rossane, or Alexander in India, the year following the first performance of Samson, and which has not been printed. Two other unpublished Handel songs include "La gloria e la fortuna," and "Son questi vaghi," originally written for later performances of Alexander in India, are here written out for Rossane, in November and December of 1743. Titles include: "Diro che l'ami" and "Spera fors'anche" from Vello d'oro, and "Parla de studi" and "Bella diva" from Diana by Giovanni Battista Pescetti ( circa 1704-1766); "Amorosa la lusingho," "Il cor fedel," "Vidi al par" and "Tui per senno" from Partenio by Francesco Maria Veracini 1690-1768; "Dirti ben mio" by [Leonardo Leo]; Air in A "O Love Regard a Virgin's Sigh," Air in F "O Beauteous Maid," Air in D minor "O Power of Bliss," Air in G "Her Breath Perfumes the Vale," Air in "A While on My Breast," Air in F "O Gentle Sleep," Air in F (French horns) "Beneath That Shade;" and "Ah, no, non voler," "Il cor mio," "La gloria e la fortuna," "Lusinghe pie care," "Fra le guerre," "Men fedele," "Placa l'alma," "Permettete ch'io," "Superbette," "Son questi vaghi," "Sempre fido e disprezzato," "Alla sua gabbia," and "In generoso onor," and "Return O God of Hosts" from Rossane, Air in F "What Beauteous Scenes," "O Godlike Youth," "As I by Charming Chloris," "Thou Rising Sun," "Per pieta: l'Incontanza delusa," and "Minuets in E and G," by Handel.

Written in unknown hand on a pale blue paper, which is probably to be dated 1807. The 3/4 section of the first chorus of the Dettingen Te Deum has two missing bars at 82-84, a mistake which occurs in all the early printed scores (Walsh, Randall, Wright, etc.) until corrected in the English Handel Society's edition of 1846/7. This suggests that this manuscript may have been copied from the early printed scores.

Two deep diagonal gouges between thinner border lines; a series of smaller marks between them.