| Keffer Collection of Sheet Music,
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Nelson Kneass was the composer of a popular setting of Thomas Dunn English's text, Ben Bolt. It was first sung in Pittsburgh in 1848 and quickly achieved success.
| Item No. | Title | Imprint | Plate No. | Illustration |
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| Box 31 no. 8 | Ben Bolt, or Oh! Don't you Remember / as sung by J. H. McCann ; the music by N. Kneass. 15th ed. | Cincinnati : W. C. Peters & Son, 1848 | 1138 | Man leaning on a cane |
| Box 31 no. 24 | Hold your Horses : as sung by Samuel S. Sanford / composed by Nelson Kneass for Sanford's Opera Troupe | Philadelphia : Winner & Shuster, 1855 | None | Man on horseback alongside a man in a horse-drawn wagnon / R. M. Gaw |
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