The famous names of the American stage are represented here; examples include Eddie Cantor, Gilbert and Sullivan, Harrigan and Hart, Al Jolson, Jenny Lind, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lillian Russell, and many more. Driscoll was particularly proud of his collection of Harrigan and Hart songs, which contains more than 200 out of the 230 or so songs that they created.

Other categories include comic songs, female impersonators, musical comedies, musical families, the opera, 19th century singers, covers showing stage scenes, show tunes, playbills, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and the Ziegfeld Follies.