Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 Content and design by John Bewley

Alphonse Brett worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from around 1847 to 1859. In 1847 Brett was the principal lithographer for T. W. Gwilt Mapleson's Pearls of American Poetry. The book was published in New York but the plates were prepared in Philadelphia by Brett and Thomas S. Sinclair. Brett seems to have moved to New York in 1860 but his whereabouts following that are unknown.

Illustrations by Alphonse Brett in the Collection

Item No.	Title	Imprint	Plate No.	Illustration	Thumbnail Image
Box 23 no. 61	The Wyoming Waltz / respectfully dedicated to Miss Maggie A. Swetland by her friend S. W. of Philada.	Philadelphia : Winner & Shuster, 1854	None	Small boat with two people in it on a moonlit river / Lith. of A. Brett