The French-Canadian Champagne brothers, Philias, Octave, and Eusebe settled in Lowell, Massachusetts around 1890. They began publishing and selling scores as well as music and lyrics of French and English songs, some of which some were recorded on national labels. The brothers also wrote and then published original compositions. The celebrated Eusebe, violin in hand, became the Strauss of the region.
This collection of their sheet music and other locally published songs ranges from 1909 to 1932, and was purchased by the Lowell Historical Society in the late 1970s.
