Home Sweet Home Museum Archive

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. This is one of the scores they collected. According to [...]

This Beecher publication includes a scrap with his signature. This is a sermon Beecher delivered to the Presbytery of Long Island at their Session in Aquebogue on April 1 [...]

This edition of the Boston Gazette includes a reference on page 3 to John Howard Payne as an actor in Hamlet. Russell and Cutler published the Boston Gazette under that t [...]

This issue of the Boston Gazette references Payne's fourth night appearing as Rolla in Pizarro.

This copy of a published tribute to George Washington is credited to Charles Phillips and dated 1817. The item was published in London, supposedly "inspired by" John Howa [...]

John Howard Payne wrote Brutus in 1818. This is a playbill from the London production.

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. A date is estimated based on other similar looking publ [...]

This is a print of an engraving of a portrait. The engraving was done by S. W. Reynolds, the painting was done by T. Foster. Henry Rawley Bishop was the foremost English [...]

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. A date is estimated based on the publisher, DuBois & [...]

This version of "Home! Sweet Home!" with lyrics was published by John Ashton, a Boston music publisher active between 1819 and 1844.

Henry Rowley Bishop was one of the foremost musical composers of his day. He collaborated with John Howard Payne on the operettas that Payne wrote the lyrics for, while B [...]

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. A date is estimated based on references to the song as [...]

Elsewhere, Mrs. Philip Millard is identified as the author of "Alice Gray: A Ballad." Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same tim [...]

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. This is one of the scores they collected.

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. Other publications of this piece date to 1830 and that [...]

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. This is one of the scores they collected. Iucho dedicat [...]

Home Sweet Home Museum collected a lot of music that was popular around the same time as John Howard Payne's work. This is one of the scores they collected. An unidentifi [...]

A date for this music is estimated based on a publication date found in another collection of early American music.

This issues contains the first part of a two-part biographical series on John Howard Payne. The second part appears in the issue from the following week.

This issues contains the second part of a two-part biographical series on John Howard Payne. The first part appeared a week before.

No date is provided for this composition. This song was performed by Miss Clara Fisher at the Park Theatre. An estimate is made for the date based on the 1833 copyright s [...]

On the front page of this issue, an original poem appears from John Howard Payne titled "Canzonet."

This issue contains lines from an unpublished play by Payne.

This newspaper issue has an item on John Howard Payne's trip to Georgia to meet with the Cherokees. Presumably the arrest referred to relates to his visit with Chief John [...]

A date of publication is based on the indication on the cover that the publisher, Leoni Lee, is the sheet music provider for Queen Victoria, who ruled from 1837-1901. The [...]