| Keffer Collection of Sheet Music,
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| Introduction |
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Little is known about the life of James Bellak. He was a remarkably prolific composer of sentimental songs and piano pieces. The popularity of his music coincided with the increasing presence of the piano in American homes in the 1860s.
| Item No. | Title | Imprint | Plate No. | Illustration |
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| Box 16 no. 14 | The Capitoline March : introducing Charles Carroll Sawyer's beautiful ballad "Who Will Care for Mother Now" / arranged for the piano by James Bellak | Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 1863 | 8927.4 | None |
| Box 16 no. 18 | Col. Elsworth [ie. Ellsworth] Funeral March / by Sep. Winner ; arr. by James Bellak | Philadelphia :Lee & Walker, 1864
Series: Melodeon at Home, no. 7 | None | None |
| Box 15 no. 27 | General Pope's Grand March : respectfully dedicated to Major General Pope / [James Bellak] | Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 1862 | 8632.4 | Portrait of General John Pope / T. Sinclair's Lith. |
| Box 20 no. 24 | The Jolly Old Crow : a celebrated Ethiopian song : as sung by the Virginia Serenaders / composed for the piano forte by James Bellak | Philadelphia : Lee & Walker, 1848 | 721.4 | A farmer in a field looking up at a crow in a tree |
| Box 32 no. 49 | La Juive = The Jewess : Twinkling Stars, no. 21 / by Halevy ; [arranged] by J. Bellak | Philadelphia : G. Andre, 1859 | None | None |
| Box 27 no. 7 | The Ledger Polka : dedicated to the Public Ledger Philada. / by James Bellak | Philadelphia : Edward L. Walker, 1849 | None | Public Ledger Building at Third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia |
| Box 32 no. 54 | Martha : Twinkling Stars, no. 16 / by J. Bellak | Philadelphia : G. Andre & Co., 1859 | None | None |
| Box 36a no. 26 | La Modestie : polka de salon / composée par James Bellak | Philadelphia : Smith & Roddon, 1850 | None | None |
| Box 32 no. 61 | La Pardon de Ploërmel : Twinkling Stars, no. 20 / [by James Bellak] | Philadelphia : Beck & Lawton, 1859 | None | None |
| Box 36 no. 37 | Polka for the Million : op. 103 / by James Bellak | Philadelphia : J. E. Gould, 1853 | None | None |
| Box 11 no. 73 | The True Friend : a ballad : sung with great applause at all the fashionable concerts by J. Quayle / music by Jas. Bellak ; written by J. W. Watson ; and respectfully dedicated to Miss M. E. Lake | Philadelphia : E. Ferrett & Co., 1848 | None | Set in caption: a mother and child standing before a mirror |
| Box 32 no. 73 | Yankee Doodle with Variations : National Melodies, no. 6 / J. Bellak | Cincinnati : W. C. Peters, 1857 | 2732 | None |
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