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I have made 83 MIDI transcriptions of selections in a 1906 piano instruction book.
https://www.angelfire.com/ks/landzastanza/
Scroll down to "selections from A Practical Method for the Piano (1906) by O. D. Weaver".

I own two copies of the book. One was published by The McDonnell Piano Company of Kansas City, Missouri, and the other by Williams Piano and Organ Company of Chicago, Illinois.

The selections I do not list are those dealing more with the rudiments of music.

Information printed in the book about the selections I have listed I have included in italic text. In regular text I have added whatever information I have been able to find in music encyclopedias, etc.  As can be seen, many selections have no information beyond their title and my MIDI transcription of them (I was able to identify one piece by recognizing it when played on a classical music radio station).

The selections are from a variety of sources: classical piano music, transcriptions of music in operas, popular dance music of the time (polka, march, waltz, mazourka, schottische), etc.

The composer most prominently represented is Charles H. Gabriel (American 1856-1932). There are at least six pieces by Gabriel, one by his wife Amelia, and one by G. G. Gabriel with a copyright by Chas. H. Gabriel.

Other composers include Caroline Lowthian, Suppe, Donizetti, Mozart, Mascagni, d'Albert, Theodor Giese, O. Williams, Frederick A. Williams, Beethoven, Waldteufel, Parlow, Stradella, James Bellak, Mendelssohn, Clementi, Schubert, Wagner, A. E. Muller, and Meyerbeer.

If anyone can help identify or further identify any of this 1906 book's selections, I would be pleased to see such information added to this post, and if confirmed, to my web site.