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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 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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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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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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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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People and culture
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The People and culture subseries consists of sheet music published between 1817 and 1899, covering diverse topics such as African Americans, children, couples, groups, immigrants, death and mourning, holidays, marriage, men, Native Americans, organizations, religion, and women. Please note that this subseries contains language and stereotypical imagery that some library users may find harmful or offensive. The section about African Americans contains comic songs, "Coon" songs, minstrel scores, plantation melodies, and ragtime tunes, depicting aspects of African American life in the 19th century, including plantation life, contraband life, and the Jim Crow era. This section includes scores by African American composers and performers such as Blind Tom, James Allen Bland, Brewer and Suttle's Ragtime Four, Bob Cole, Gussie Lord Davis, Peter Devonear, Billy Johnson, Irving Jones, Sam Lucas, and Bert A. Williams. Additionally, it includes scores by European American composers and performers including E. P. Christy, Press Eldridge, George "Honey Boy" Evans, Charles Kunkel, the Virginia Serenaders, Lew Dockstader, Lotta Crabtree, Flo Irwin, May Irwin, and John Philip Sousa. Notably, "A Trip To Coontown" by Bert A. Williams, Bob Cole, and Billy Johnson, the first musical in New York written, produced, and performed by African Americans, is part of this collection. Additional scores to note focus on the experiences of immigrants to the United States (such as the Chinese, English, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, and Scottish) and Native American characters and tribes including Chief Keokuk of the Sauk Nation, the mythical figure Minnehaha, "Old Bets," Chief Osceola of the Seminole, Chief Ossahinta of the Onondaga, Chief Paxinosa of the Shawnee, Pocahontas, as well as the Dakota, Narragansett, Nez Perce, and the Sioux nations. To note is the rare score "Wakona Waltz" published in 1837 by Fred Munson, Jr. There are also scores dedicated to significant fraternal orders and nonprofit organizations including the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, and the American Red Cross.
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