"Democratic Souvenirs" is an historical anthology of 19th-Century American Music. It is the third volume of the New York Public Library's Americana Collection Music Series. It features an introduction by the distinguished American composer Virgil Thompson, and an introduction by the editor, Richard Jackson, who is the former Head, Americana Collection, of the Music Division of the New York Public Library.
The book contains biographical sketches of all composers, photographs, original illustrations, and compositions by: Amy Marcy Beach, George W. Chadwick, Stephen Foster, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, John Henry Hopkins, Scott Joplin, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, Charles C. Perkins, John Philip Sousa, and many more!
