Industry and professions

The Industry and professions subseries is comprised of sheet music published between 1813 and 1899. Materials cover a broad range of topics including education, fashion, finance, firefighting, horticulture, household, maritime, photography, printing and publishing, and industry. Topics to note include odes to Cornell, Harvard, Yale, New York University, and the United States Military Academy West Point. There are also scores dedicated to fashion highlighting a variety of trendy clothing styles worn during the 1800s, such as bloomers, crinolines, Grecian bends, and petticoats. Others call attention to popular nineteenth-century fashion accessories, hairstyles, and retail stores. Included are several versions of the score "Dolly Varden" - dedicated to a fashionable woman's outfit named after a character in the 1841 Charles Dickens novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty. 

The scores devoted to finance and firefighting focus on currency, firehouses throughout the United States, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876. Scores about horticulture and the household focus on flowers, plants, and household items and comprise of colorfully lithographed sheet music covers. The maritime scores featured in this subseries place emphasis on seafaring life and steamships. Included are the scores "A Life On The Ocean Wave" composed by Henry Russell, "The Light Bark" composed by J.T. Craven, and "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" composed by J.P. Knight.

Notable steamships and liners highlighted are the Atlantic, the American Line, the Oceanic, the White Star Line, and the Great Western Steamship Company. The scores centering on printing, publishing, and photography highlight notable printers, publishers, photographers, and innovative printing and photography techniques of the day - the latter are adorned with photographic prints. Lastly, the collection incorporates a sizeable number of scores relating to agricultural, beverage, food, and petroleum production, as well as the cultivation and sale of tobacco.