Guide to the James Thurber Family Collection



Series XI: Ephemera, 1902-1956

Subseries I: Theater Programs, 1902-1940
Box Name: Ephemera
Folder Names:
Thurber Family's Great Southern Theatre program, February 6, 1899; April 10, 1899
Empire Theatre program, 1902-1903
Metropolitan Opera House program, 1905-1906
Souvenir program, Keith's Theatre, January 3, 1910
Cort Theatre program, 1940
Subseries II: Magazines, 1894-1956
Box Name: Ephemera
Folder Names:
The Burr McIntosh-Monthly, January 1906
"Diagonal Closings and Frills Are Popular,"Pictorial Review (on display on second floor of Thurber House), January 1912
"The Skirt with Back Panel or Open Seam,"Pictorial Review (on display on second floor of Thurber House), January 1912
Red Book, February 1913
Metropolitan, April 1915
Metropolitan, November 1915
Pagan, September 1916
The Mentor: Literary Landmarks of New York, September 15, 1920
The Twentieth Century, July 1956
Harper's Bazaar, December 15, 1894 (1971 reprint)
Subseries III: Postcards and Bookmarks, 1911-1918
Box Name: Ephemera
Folder Names:
Postcards, undated
Postcard depicting Columbus vs. Toledo baseball game, July 1, 1905, undated
Postcard books: Views of Columbus, Ohio flood, March 1913
Postcards donated by Patty Donahey, 1911-1918
Bookmark from A.H. Smythe, 41 S. High St,, Columbus, undated
Subseries IV: Booklets, 1904-1916
Box Name: Ephemera
Folder Names:
Washburn-Crosby Co.'s New Gold Medal Cook Book, 1904
Rumford Receipt Book, 1911
The Mentor: Great Galleries of the World: The National Gallery, London, April 1, 1916
The X-Rays, East High School, 1906
The X-Rays, East High School, 1913
Subseries V: Sheet Music, 1901-1941
Box Name: Sheet Music: 1
Folder Names:
"Poor Butterfly", 1916
"The Sunset Glow", 1916
"Your Great Big Baby Smile", 1916
"Way Down in Iowa I'm Going to Hide Away", 1916
"I'm Coming Back to You, Poor Butterfly", 1917
"Just You", 1917
"Let's All Be Americans Now", 1917
"The Liberty Bells Are Ringing", 1917
"Little Mother of Mine"(incomplete), 1917
"Lookout Mountain", 1917
"Over There", 1917
"Patria", 1917
"Say a Prayer for the Boys 'Out There'", 1917
"The Soul of You", 1917
"The U.S.A. Will Lay the Kaiser Away"(published by Buckeye Music Publishing Co., Columbus), 1917
"When the Autumn Leaves Are Turning Gold", 1917
"Have a Smile for Everyone You Meet and They Will Have a Smile for You", 1918
"I'm Glad I Can Make You Cry", 1918
"I Think You're Absolutely Wonderful (What Do You Think of Me?)", 1918
"Ja-Da", 1918
"Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)", 1918
"Lonesome Blues", 1918
"Southern Moon", 1918
"Spring Song of the Robin Woman", 1918
"Your Lips Are No Man's Land But Mine", 1918
"You're Still an Old Sweetheart of Mine", 1918
"How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (After They've Seen Paree)", 1919
"I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home", 1919
"Let the Rest of the World Go By", 1919
"Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You", 1919
"The Red Lantern", 1919
"Somebody's Waiting for Someone", 1919
"Tell Me", 1919
"Swanee", 1919
"Tiger Rose", 1919
"When You Look in the Heart of a Rose", 1919
"Avalon", 1920
"I'd Love To Fall Asleep and Wake Up in My Mammy's Arms", 1920
"O-hi-O (O-My!-O)", 1920
"Whispering", 1920
"Home Again Blues", 1921
"Peggy O'Neil", 1921
"Eleanor", 1922
"Gee! But I Hate To Go Home Alone", 1922
"Indian Love Call", 1924
"Rose-Marie", 1924
"Tea For Two", 1924
"Got No Time", 1925
"Who?", 1925
"Bye Bye Blackbird", 1926
"Building a Nest for Mary", 1928
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen", 1930
"It Happened in Monterey", 1930
"Falling Waters", undated
Miscellaneous fragments of sheet music, undated
"Across the Field": OSU football song, with words and music by Bill Dougherty, undated
(on display in Robert's room)
Box Name: Sheet Music: 2
Folder Names:
"The Star of the East", 1901
"Football", 1905
"When the Moon Shines on the Pennsylvania Hills", 1905
"Jingle Bells", 1906
"The Birth of a Nation" (by Paul Laurence Dunbar), 1907
"Just You", 1907
"Falling Waters", 1908
"Take Your Girl to the Ball Game", 1908
"Give Me a Spin in Your Mitchell Bill", 1909
"Heinze: A Comic Song", 1909
"The Call of the Bugle", 1910
"Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine (Up She Goes!)", 1910
"Down by the Old Mill Stream", 1910
"I'd Love to Live in Loveland with a Girl Like You", 1910
"Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me", 1910
"Billy (I Always Dream of Bill)", 1911
"I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)", 1911
"Song Successes from Gus Edwards' Song Revue", 1911
"That Old Girl of Mine", 1912
"Why Don't You Smile?", 1912
"Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay", 1913
"The Game of Eyes", 1914
"In the Baggage Coach Ahead", 1914
"On the Shores of Italy", 1914
"Sylvia", 1914/1941
"When You and I Were Seventeen", 1914
"Are You from Dixie? ('Cause I'm from Dixie, Too!)", 1915
"Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do!", 1915
"The Birth of a Nation", 1915
"I'm On My Way to Dublin Bay", 1915
"My Bird of Paradise", 1915
"My Sweet Adair", 1915
"Often", 1915
"She Was Too Good To Be True", 1915
"Summer Moon", 1915
"Tears - A Reverie", 1915
"There's a Garden of Eden in Sweden", 1915
"You're the Dawn of a Perfect Day", 1915
"An Old-Fashioned Rose - My Mother", 1916
"Come On To Nashville (Tennessee)", 1916
"Do You Sometimes Think of Me", 1916
"I Ain't Got Nobody Much and Nobody Cares for Me", 1916
"I Love You Truly", 1916
"It's a Long, Long Time Since I've Been Home", 1916
"Just a Word of Sympathy", 1916
"O'Brien's Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian", 1916

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