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Title: Home delights / poetry and music by John P. Ordway
Creator: Ordway, John P. (John Pond), 1824-1880, composer
Contributor: Ordway's Æolian Vocalists, performer
Wood's Minstrels, performer
Ordway, John P. (John Pond), 1824-1880, lyricist., publisher
Christy, George N., 1827-1868, performer
Last, Jay T., collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1854
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: For voice and piano. ; Caption title. ; Home delights song and chorus as performed by Ordway's Aeolians of Boston, Wood's Minstrels, also Geo. Christy & Wood's Minstrels of New York poetry and music by John P. Ordway. ; First line of text: Home delights! Home delights! ; First line of chorus: Home delights! Home delights! ; "To Mrs, Henry Wood." ; Verses 2-3 printed as text on page 4. ; "End. by Greene & Walker."
Extent: 1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
Identifier: priJLC_SMUS Box T7
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/7890
Language: English
Subject: Songs with piano
Minstrel music
Homesickness
Popular music--United States
Sheet music. (aat)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sheet Music
Entertainment
Minstrels 1800's I-R
T7
22
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the sheet music was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2019.

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