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Travel
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The Travel subseries comprises sheet music dating from 1900 to 1962 and is dedicated to travel within the United States (U.S.) and abroad. Numerous scores focus on U.S. travel destinations, including California and New York. Additionally, there are scores dedicated to foreign travel destinations, including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, England, Europe, Mexico, and Polynesia. This subseries also includes a folder of travel-related scores with inconspicuous destinations.
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Industry and professions
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The Industry and professions subseries comprises sheet music published between 1900 and 1992. Materials cover a broad range of topics, including education, fashion, finance, firefighting, food and beverage, horticulture, household, maritime, film, printing and publishing, and industry. Topics to note include odes to Berkley, Stanford, Princeton, the University of Washington, Yale, as well as aspects of academic life. There are also scores dedicated to fashion, highlighting a variety of trendy clothing styles worn during the 20th-century. The scores devoted to finance and firefighting focus on currency, firefighters, and the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903 (Chicago, Illinois). Scores devoted to horticulture and the household focus on flowers, plants, and household items. Other scores cover popular food choices and beverages, including Budweiser beer, as well as grocery stores and eateries. The maritime scores featured in this subseries place emphasis on seafaring life and steamships. Included topics are the Panama Canal, the steamers Island Queen, Virginia, Lusitania, Titanic, and Whipoorwill. The scores centering on other industries highlight the New York Press and the Pittsburgh Gazette. Lastly, the subseries incorporates a number of scores dedicated to titans of industry, including Miracle Man dedicated to American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison, The Copper King dedicated to American businessman and author Thomas W. Lawson, and The Steel King dedicated to American steel magnate Charles M. Schwab.
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Politics
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The Politics subseries holds sheet music dating from 1825 to 1893, and mainly contains sheet music dedicated to the legal, political, and social landscapes of 19th-century America with some focus on foreign legal, political, and social landscapes as well. Many of the scores focus on the Democratic, Republican, and Whig parties, U.S. Congress, governors, and presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, James A. Garfield, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William McKinley. Other notable figures include Henry Clay, Governor Silas Wright of New York, and Daniel Webster. The subseries also includes scores dedicated to foreign affairs and dignitaries from Canada, Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and South America, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Prince Edward II, King Charles I, and Abdul Assiz the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Lastly, there is a small section of scores dedicated to the Reconstruction era, the temperance movement, and poverty, along with a small representation of police forces and postal workers throughout the U.S. Key scores to note are "Get Off The Track!" an emancipation song performed by the Hutchinson Family Singers, and "The Prize Banner Quick Step," a Whig Party campaign score composed and arranged by D.H. Haskell.
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Nineteenth century
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The 19th-century series consists of around 13,350 scores dated between 1794 and 1900. The collection represents various styles of popular American music, including pieces dedicated to entertainment, industry and professions, the military, people and culture, travel, politics, science, sports and leisure, transportation, and miscellaneous songs. It also includes a small number of scores published in Britain and Europe. While a substantial portion of the scores are intact, many are missing cover pages. In some cases, only the cover page is available. Among those with cover pages, a considerable number are ornately lithographed. Some are autographed or are stamped with the seller's mark. The scores feature lyrical or instrumental compositions, primarily in cake walks, galops, marches, mazurkas, polkas, schottisches, two-steps, quadrilles, redowas, and waltzes, and in some instances, there are multiple editions. Throughout the collection users will find notable creators, engravers, performers, printers, publishers, and productions associated with the scores. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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Science and technology
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The Science subseries holds sheet music dating from 1900 to 1990 and is dedicated to various land animals, marine animals, and insects. This includes birds, bees, butterflies, domestic animals, farm animals, forest dwellers, and mythical creatures. A small section of scores is dedicated to weather and other elements of the natural environment, as well as the rise of technological innovations encompassing the invention and use of radio, telephone, and wireless.
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Sports and leisure
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The Sports and leisure subseries comprises sheet music published between 1829 and 1899 and is specifically dedicated to sporting and leisurely activities popular in nineteenth century America. Among the scores are pieces dedicated to archery, baseball, boating, billiards, gambling, croquet, equestrianism, fireworks, fishing, hunting, rowing, shooting, skating, and trapping. Notable scores within this subseries include "Minnesota Boat Club March," published in 1893 and composed by Emile Oberhoffer; seven copies of "Light may the Boat row," published between 1836 and 1841 and arranged by John Watson; and six copies of "The Mellow Horn," published between 1830 and 1855 and composed and performed by Mr. Jones.
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