Ferrante Collection
The following items are from the estate of Dr. Arthur Ferrante, and represent an important collection within the Archives. Cataloging this immense accession is still ongoing, but the following is a partial index.
| Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|
| The United States Infantry | Book | Library |
| Discovering Music | Book | Library |
| Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife | Book | Library |
| Reader's Digest Family Songbook | Book | Library |
| Bands and Drummer Boys of the Civil War | Hat | Library |
| Veteran Corps of Artillery Shako, drum ears, leather strap | Hat | shelf above files |
| 2 Tarred Straw hats, Colonial Navy of Massachusetts | Hat | shelf above files |
| 1 Straw pith helmet, 1 New Jersey Field Music kepi | Hat | shelf above files |
| 1 Band hat, 1 tri-corn, 2 fatigue caps, belt | Object | shelf above files |
| 1 folding wooden table stand with lyre design | Object | bar (downstairs) |
| 1 Bicentennial plaque | Object | bar (downstairs) |
| 1 set each of 1st, 2nd, 3rd printings of Ferrante Book, in a box | Music Book | Archives by desk |
| 3 small boxes Ferrante Book unbound pages and covers | Music Books | Archives |
| 1 Bicentennial Flag, in box | Music Books | Archives |
| Drummers' and Fifers' Guide by George Bruce &Dan Emmett reprint | Music Book | W11 |
| Flockton Drum Method with Upton Camp Duty, 3 copies | Music Book | W11 |
| Box of 12 small reel-to-reel tapes | Recordings | Under tall desk |
| Abridged Academy Songbook, The | Music Book | Library |
| Enjoyment of Music, The | Music Book | Library |
| Popular Songs That Will Live Forever | Music Book | Library |
| Legit Professional Fake Book | Music Book | Library |
| Binder of Dr. Ferrante's Music, from discarded moldy notebook | Music | |
| Box of Dr. Ferrante's papers | Papers | |
| Cartoon History of the American Revolution | Book | Library |
| Our Vanishing Landscape | Book | Library |
| The Bicentennial Almanac | Book | Library |
| The Birth of America | Book | Library |
| Give Me Liberty - America's Colonial Heritage | Book | Library |
| In the Minds and Hearts of the People | Book | Library |
| 1776 Year of Illusions | Book | Library |
| Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events | Book | Library |
| American Heritage History of the American Revolution | Book | Library |
| Silver Metal Baton | Object | |
| Oversize box of papers, posters, calendars | Papers | |
| box of papers, | Papers | |
| Cardboard file drawer full of papers | Papers | over B5 |
| 1st Michigan Colonial Fife and Drum Corps | LP Record | Record Library |
| 200 Years of Fife and Drum in America | LP Record | Record Library |
| 78th Convention of the CT FDA. 1963 Championships | LP Record | Record Library |
| 90th CT F&D Assn. Lake Quasepaug 1973 | LP Record | Record Library |
| American Fife and Drum Music | LP Record | Record Library |
| America's First Army: Sounds of a Militia Muster | LP Record | Record Library |
| Army in the West, The | LP Record | Record Library |
| Birth of Liberty | LP Record | Record Library |
| Bits and Pieces | LP Record | Record Library |
| Civil War - Its Music and Its Sound 2 record Set | LP Record | Record Library |
| Colonial Chowder | LP Record | Record Library |
| Concert of Military Music, A | LP Record | Record Library |
| Deep River Muster 1967 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Dickerson on Parade | LP Record | Record Library |
| Early American Vocal Music | LP Record | Record Library |
| Field Music from 1750-1950 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fife & Drum Music of the American Revolution v. 1 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fife and Drum March Music | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fife and Drum Musick in America | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fifes and Drums | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fifes and Drums and the Band of Musick | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fifes and Drums of Williamsburg | LP Record | Record Library |
| For Spirited Men Who Love Their Flag | LP Record | Record Library |
| Fort Ticonderoga | LP Record | Record Library |
| Glory! | LP Record | Record Library |
| Military Fanfares and Marches | LP Record | Record Library |
| Military Music in America War of 1812 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Music of the American Revolution v. 1 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Music of the American Revolution v. 2 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Musical Heritage of America vol. 1 | LP Record | Record Library |
| Nathan Hale Ancient Fifes and Drums | LP Record | Record Library |
| Old Guard, The | LP Record | Record Library |
| Pride and Joy | LP Record | Record Library |
| Redcoats Are Coming, The | LP Record | Record Library |
| Spirit of 76 Music for Fifes and Drums | LP Record | Record Library |
| Spirit of 76 Music for Fifes and Drums | LP Record | Record Library |
| St Benedict's Fife and Drum Corps, Bronx, NY | LP Record | Record Library |
| Tippecanoe Ancient Fife and Drum Corps | LP Record | Record Library |
| Tunes of a Wayside Inn | LP Record | Record Library |
| Union Army Band, The | LP Record | Record Library |
| Village Volunteers, Delmar, NY | LP Record | Record Library |
| We Play and Beat Yankee Doodle | LP Record | Record Library |
| Yankee Organ Music | LP Record | Record Library |
| Acorn Book of Tunes, The | Music Book | W10 |
| Bread & Butter of Jamming | Music Book | W10 |
| Camp Dupont Book | Music Book | W10 |
| Camp Duty | Music Book | W10 |
| Chas. T. Kirk Fife | Music Book | W10 |
| Fife Instruction Manual | Music Book | W11 |
| Fyfer's Story, A | Music Book | W11 |
| Green Mountain Regiment Drum Manual | Music Book | W11 |
| Green Mountain Regiment Fife Manual | Music Book | W11 |
| Hudson Valley Day | Music Book | W11 |
| Instructions for the Piccolo | Music Book | W11 |
| Manual for the Fife | Music Book | W5 |
| Music of the Sons of Liberty | Music Book | W5 |
| New York Fife Book, The | Music Book | W6 |
| Old Fort Snelling Book | Music Book | W6 |
| Sons of Liberty Dinner Dance 10/1/1997 | Music Book | W6 |
| Tunes of the Hudson Valley | Music Book | W7 |
| Tutorial on the Fife | Music Book | W7 |
| Watrous Book, The | Music Book | W7 |
| C26 CFD "Championship Fife & Drum: Regimentals, Yanks, MCM | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C27 CFD Camp Duty 1980 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C28 B&E and Strube Duty / Fennell's Camp Duty | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C29Sailors & Guns, Fifes & Drums | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C3 New Rochelle 1973, Mike Chiodo, Swiss, Lancraft | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C30 Anthology of Fife Pieces, vol 1, David Migoya | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C31 Piccolo Tunes c. 1900: Sweinfest - Mazziotta - Luffsky, 2nd Reg't. N.G. March Fife & Drum Corps | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C32 Piccolo Tunes c. 1900: Sweinfest - Mazziotta - Luffsky, 2nd Reg't. N.G. March Fife & Drum Corps | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C33 Piccolo Tunes c. 1900: Sweinfest - Mazziotta - Luffsky, 2nd Reg't. N.G. March Fife & Drum Corps | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C34 Piccolo Tunes c. 1900: Sweinfest - Mazziotta - Luffsky, 2nd Reg't. N.G. March Fife & Drum Corps | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C35 Rebels and Redcoats - National Geographic Society | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C36 Christmas 1986 Grandpa playing fife for grandchildren | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C37 Popular Tunes, etc. | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C38 Fiddle Tunes by Jean Corrigan | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C39 Fiddle - Charles Kopanski, Piano - Frank D. Moon | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C4 Jockey Hollow/ Duke, Doc, "Joe McDonald" 1971 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C40 16 Fiddle Tunes | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C41 The Classics - Solitudes | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C42 Planxty Pauline - The Muster Bunch | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C43 The Wind in the Rigging - the New England Music Collection | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C44 Marching Out of Time - Colonial Williamsburg, 1989 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C45 200 Years of Fife and Drum in America - NY Regimentals | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C46 John C. Moon, Instructor for the Drum | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C47 CFD The Watrous Book | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C5 May 4, 1973 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C6 New Jersey Field Music, Deep Rive, 1973 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C7 1973 Muster/ 1986 Yankee Tunesmith's Muster | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C8 Deep River 1970 | Cassette | Tape Collection |
| C9 Deep River 1970 | Cassette | Tape Collection |