The New York Public Library offers the American Popular Song Sheets, 1890-1922 digital collection.
The library has over 400,000 titles in its holdings. Thousands of these are represented in the digital collection, but I can't determine how they selected their sampling. For instance, the year 1922 has only 2 songsheets represented, but the year 1900 has digitized 620 songsheets.
The JPEG digital images are about 225 x 300 pixels initially, but expand to about 560 x 760 pixels when the image is enlarged. There's also the option to view a printer friendly version, or to purchase the image as a print or gift.
A wealth of metadata is provided for this collection. In addition to listing the creator, title, date, and digital image ID, the NYPL Call Number and a link to the Library Catalog Record are also available.
Anyone interested in this subject matter would certaintly appreciate this collection, and anyone just browsing the library's online collection could enjoy it as well. I personally enjoyed exploring the collection, the songsheets can be quite interesting, and also humorous at times.
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