Author: (Foster, Stephen Collins; 1826-1864)
Title: Foster Hall Bulletins, Nos. 5 and 8-12 (6 Issues), with Two Other Pieces
Description: Indianapolis, IN: J. K. Lilly, 1932-1940. 1932-1940. Indianapolis, IN: J. K. Lilly, 1932-1940. 1932-1940. Very good. - Bulletin No. 5 consists of 6 stapled, mechanically reproduced typed pages [12-7/8 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. Stapled at the rear is the facsimile of a title page to "Music of the Original Christy Minstrels". The bulletin has been folded 3 times & the margins of the facsimile are slightly chipped at the folds. Bulletins 8-12 are small quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover. Nos. 8-11 are bound in printed cream, tan or gray wrappers sewn with matching cord. No. 12 is bound in printed blue wrappers. Each bulletin is 24 pages with black- and-white illustrations, including music staves & facsimiles. A full-page head-and-shoulders color portrait of Stephen Foster with a tissue guard is laid into No. 9 with a full-length color portrait laid into No. 10. There is light chipping to the front edges of several of the bulletins. There are vertical score marks & light soiling to the wraps of No. 8 and No. 12 has been folded twice, leaving light creases to the wraps & leaves. The tissue guards accompanying the portraits are a bit roughed around the edges. All in all, very good copies of this bulletin.

Laid into Bulletin No. 12 is a two-page list of collectors of Fosteriana.

Two additional pieces of ephemera are included with the bulletins. The first is a 1932 brochure on Foster Hall, the house in the suburbs of Indianapolis which housed Lilly's collection of Fosteriana, which he established in 1930 and gave in trust to the University of Pittsburgh. The brochure, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide, was published by Lilly and is printed in French fold on cream stock, folded to form 4 sides. A photographic illustration of Foster Hall is on the cover and two poems on Foster Hall by Eleanor Stimmel are printed on the second and third sides. The outer sides of the brochure are slightly soiled. The second piece is a softcover octavo pamphlet bound in printed blue wraps titled THE STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER MEMORIAL of the University of Pittsburgh: A Tribute to the Composer Whose Melodies Have Become the Heart Songs of the American People. Dedicated June 2, 1937". Prepared by the Stephen Foster Dedication Committee, the 16-page pamphlet, which is illustrated in black & white and is in very good condition, also pays tribute to the work of J. K. Lilly as the leading collector of material relating to the life and works of Stephen Foster. Very good .

Keywords: MUSIC; POPULAR MUSIC; AMERICAN MUSIC; COMPOSER; SONGWRITER; STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; SONGS; NEGRO MINSTRELS; FOSTER HALL BULLETINS; FOSTER HALL BROCHURE; COLLECTOR; J. K. LILLY; UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH; THE STEPHEN COLLIN

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