DESCRIPTION: Large assembled album of 19th century sheet music bound into a half leather album with marbled boards and personalized leather title to front board stating owner as "Addie F. Patterson". Includes popular and patriotic songs as well love ballads. It also includes an interesting "gentleman's comic song" entitled "I Wish That I'd Been Born a Girl" by Harry Angelo with color cover sheet showing a man dressed in a hoop skirted dress. Published by Marsh & Bubna, Philadelphia. Back pages include a hand written index to the music included in the album. Harry Angelo was a song writer, a banjo player, minstrel show performer, and comic vocalist from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. He performed and/or wrote songs for Sanford's American Opera House, the Roxborough Lyceum Hall, Carncross & Dixey's Minstrels, and many others in the 1850s and possibly later. Some of his songs were published, often as H. Angelo. He also collected theatrical and minstrel materials. Addie Patterson lived in Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. MEASUREMENTS: 13-3/4" x 11". CONDITION: Overall wear, toning and scattered foxing. Scattered tears and folded corners to music. Wear, rubbing to boards.