The Center for American Music (CAM) is a library, archive, special collection and museum of reference and research materials for American music, with an emphasis on Stephen Foster and popular culture between 1840 and 1940. The core holding of international significance is the Foster Hall Collection, the world repository for materials pertaining to Pittsburgh-born composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), America’s first professional songwriter; additional collections of national and regional significance relate primarily to other Pittsburgh musicians.  Established in Indianapolis in 1931 by pharmaceutical manufacturer Josiah K. Lilly and donated to Pitt along with the Stephen Foster Memorial building in 1937, the Foster collection has grown to over 15,000 catalogued books, scores, songbooks, maps, posters, handbills, programs, films, prints, sound recordings and periodicals. Other items include approximately 4,000 music scores, 6500 sound recordings in various formats, 3000 photographs and slides, 250 linear feet of manuscripts and archives, plus printers’ plates, musical instruments, artworks, and ephemera.