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Miscellaneous songs
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The Miscellaneous subseries comprises scores between 1900 and 1949 that focus on romance aside from marriage and subject matter that may not fall neatly within the previous seven subseries.
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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.) with a small number of scores dedicated to travel abroad. The scores focus on destinations, including California, New York, 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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Transportation
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The Transportation subseries comprises sheet music published between 1900 and 1956 and focuses on innovative modes of transportation in twentieth-century America. This includes airplanes, airships, automobiles, balloons, cable cars, jitneys, motorcycles, railroads, rolling chairs, streetcars, taxis, and wagons. Included are scores about American aviator, officer, and author Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974).
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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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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 Berkeley, 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 Whippoorwill. 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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Comic songs: A-L by title
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The Jay T. Last sheet music collection consists of approximately 34,950 scores dating from 1794 to 1998. It includes a wide range of American popular music styles, as well as scores published outside of the United States. The collection encompasses ballads, blues, comic songs, jazz, minstrel scores, military scores, patriotic melodies, pop, ragtime compositions, religious hymns, rhythm and blues hits, show tunes, soul music, and 1960s surf music. The scores comprise various editions of lyrical and instrumental compositions, some of which are ornately designed and, in some cases, bear the signatures of creators and performers. Many of the scores have sellers' marks printed on the covers. Some of the names found in the nineteenth-century series overlap with those in the twentieth-century series. It is also important to note that this collection contains historical images and language that some library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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