Alexander Music House collection

Collection consists of ledgers, sheet music, photographs, business documents, and publicity clippings from Alexander Music House, a Spartanburg business that sold musical instruments, lessons, and recordings from the turn of the century through the 1980s.

Contents include:

Box 1 1. Folder: Photos: 167 W. Main St. Location (1 negative, 5 photos) 2. Folder: Photos: 200 E. Main St. Location (44 photos) 3. Folder: Photos: 391 E. Main St. Location (36 photos) 4. Folder: Photos: Misc. (30 photos) 5. Folder: Newspaper Clippings (photocopies) 6. Folder: Publications featuring AMH 7. Folder: Plans and Correspondence for Sign, 1969 8. Folder: Correspondence, Stationary, Contracts, Etc (1902-1992) 9. Inventory Binder (1937-1955) 10.-15. Inventory Folders: 1956-62

Box 2 16. Weaver’s New Method of Instruction for the Reed Organ (ca. 1905) published for A. M. Alexander Company, pages missing, poor condition 17. Bentley’s Dollar Method for the Parlor Organ (1900) published by A. M. Alexander Company (three copies, condition fair) 18. Large selection of sheet music (ca. 1930s-1960s) 19. Box containing company stamps and business cards 20. Pouch with company embossing seal

Box 3 21. Ledger: Instruments sold, new and used (1923-1943), spine damage 22. Ledger: Instruments sold and rented, new and used (1944-1982), spine damage

Filed Separately 23. Spartanburg Journal, January 29, 1902 24. Tryon Bee, October 28, 1905 (poor condition)