| Keffer Collection of Sheet Music,
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George and William Endicott were born in Canton, Massachusetts. George Endicott began his career as a lithographer in New York in1828. From 1830 to 1834 he was partners with Moses Swett in Endicott & Swett. William Endicott joined his brother's firm in 1841. After George Endicott died in 1848 William continued operation of the firm as William Endicott & Co. He was joined by Francis Endicott from 1852 to 1886 and George Endicott, Jr. ran the firm from 1887 to 1891.
There are approximately twenty-seven items in the collection for which the Endicotts provided the illustrations.
| Item No. | Title | Imprint | Plate No. | Illustration | Thumbnail Image |
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| Box 13 no. 31 | The Mountain Home Quick Step : from the popular melody Will You Come to My Mountain Home Love? : played by Dodworth's Cornet Band / [melody by Francis Brown] ; arranged by Samuel O. Dyer | New York : Firth, Hall & Pond, 1847 | 4199 | House set among fields and woods / G. & W. Endicott's Lith. | 
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| Box 11 no. 55 | Oh! Gently Glides My Bonnie Boat : a favorite duett : respecyfully dedicated to Miss Mary A. Cole / composed & arranged with symphonies & accompaniments by J. Greenwood | New York : T. Birch, 1832 | None | A couple in a row boat / Lith. of Endicott & Swett | 
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| Box 40 no. 16 | Old King Cotton / words by George P. Morris ; music by Wm. H. Morris | New York : Wm. Hall & Son, 1860 | 4481 | Color: Cotton plant in bloom / lith. of Endicott & Co. | 
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| Box 13 no. 37 | The Retreat from St. Jean D'Acre : a descriptive march / composed & dedicated to Commodore Napier and his brave companions in arms by Stephen Glover | New York : Firth, Hall & Pond, between 1844 and 1847 | 2202 | Ibrahim Pacha on horseback / Lith. of Endicott | 
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| Box 37 no. 31 | Saratoga Schottisch / arranged for the pianoforte by Johann Munck | New York : Horace Waters, 1851 | None | Tinted: Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. / Lith. of Endicott & Co. | 
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| Box 11a no. 56 | Woodman! Spare That Tree! : a ballad / the words copied from the New York Mirror, written by George P. Morris, by whom this song is respectfully dedicated to Benjamin M. Brown, Esq. ; the music by Henry Russell | New York : Firth & Hall, 1837 | None | Woodman with axe standing next to a large tree. Another man is speaking to him, presumably entreating him to spare the tree / Lith. of G. & W. Endicott | 
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