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Industry and professions
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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.
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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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Travel
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The Travel subseries is comprised of sheet music dating from 1824 to 1899 and is dedicated to travel within the United States (U.S.) and abroad. Numerous scores focus on U.S. travel destinations like California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Additionally, there are scores dedicated to foreign travel destinations such as Canada, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Switzerland. The collection also includes multiple scores dedicated to New York State and City, featuring a first edition copy of "New York, or Oh! What a Charming City!" published in 1831 by G.M. Bourne in New York. The cover of this edition showcases one of the earliest American lithographs of the city. Lastly, there is a small section of scores dedicated to historic hotels, primarily in Massachusetts, Missouri, and New York (The Astor House), along with a small representation of hotels in Canada.
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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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Science
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The Science subseries holds sheet music dating from 1819 to 1899 and is dedicated to various land animals, marine animals, and insects. This includes amphibians, birds, butterflies, domestic animals, farm animals, and forest dwellers. The subseries also consists of five issues of "Pop Goes the Weasel," printed between 1853 and 1864 by various publishers. Additionally, a small section of scores is dedicated to the rise of technological innovations and other areas of scientific study. This encompasses the use of electricity, the invention of telegraphy, the study of astronomy, and Darwinism.
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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 innovations encompassing the invention and use of radio, telephone, and wireless technology.
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