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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.) 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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Transportation
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The Transportation subseries comprises sheet music published between 1900 and 1956 and focuses on innovative modes of transportation in 20th-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 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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Comic songs: A-L by title
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The Jay T. Last sheet music collection consists of approximately 37,419 scores dating from 1794 to the 1960s. It includes a wide range of American popular music styles, as well as some British and European popular music. The collection encompasses ballads, comic songs, minstrel scores, military scores, patriotic melodies, ragtime compositions, Broadway tunes, rhythm and blues hits, and 1960s surf music. The scores comprise various editions of lyrical and instrumental compositions, some of which have ornately lithographed covers and bear the signatures of composers, performers, and artists, as well as sellers' marks. It's important to note that this collection contains historical images and language that some library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate. The Jay T. Last collection is an archive of printed paper artifacts that documents American lithographic, social, and business history. The collection began in the early 1970s when physicist and Silicon Valley pioneer, Jay T. Last moved to Southern California and started collecting citrus box labels he found at local flea markets and rummage sales. As his collection grew, Last realized that these labels conveyed important information about commercial printing, graphic design, and social history, and he expanded his collection to include other forms of American visual culture. Today this collection contains more than 250,000 prints, posters, and ephemera of nineteenth and twentieth century American origin and represents works by more than five hundred lithographic companies.
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