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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1C. Music Printers
31. Some Nineteenth Century Music Printers
5A partial list of music printers of the latter half of the nineteenth century follows:
7Kidder & Wright's
8Music
9Stereotyping & Printing
10Establishment
11No. [address hidden], Boston
12They advertised that they were prepared to execute orders for stereotyping or printing music in any style desired by publishers, as they had "Music Types of SIX different PATTERNS, and FIVE SIZES, . . . which no establishment can present." 1 They also did book and job printing and were the printers and proprietors of the Boston Musical Gazette. Their advertisement gave six samples of music notes, etc.
14W. H. Oakes, [address hidden], 1840-50
15This firm also did some publishing.
17Andrew B. Kidder possibly earlier a partner in Kidder & Wright
187 Cornhill in 1850
19[address hidden] in 1870
20Changed to A. B. Kidder & Son and located at [address hidden] in 1880.
22Edward L. Balch
23[address hidden] around 1853
24[address hidden] around 1856 till he moved to [address hidden] in 1868
25He printed the first twelve volumes of Dwight's Journal of Music, then Oliver Ditson & Co. took over the publishing from John S. Dwight with the April 1868 issue. He also printed Boston Musical Times when it was published by Russell & Tolman and Henry Tolman through the August 1, 1868 number.
271 Boston Musical Gazette, September 5, 1838, page 80.
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