Visual Materials
The Politics subseries holds sheet music dating from 1825 to 1893, and mainly contains sheet music dedicated to the legal, political, and social landscapes of 19th-century America with some focus on foreign legal, political, and social landscapes as well. Many of the scores focus on the Democratic, Republican, and Whig parties, U.S. Congress, governors, and presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, James A. Garfield, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William McKinley. Other notable figures include Henry Clay, Governor Silas Wright of New York, and Daniel Webster. The subseries also includes scores dedicated to foreign affairs and dignitaries from Canada, Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and South America, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry VIII, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Prince Edward II, King Charles I, and Abdul Assiz the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Lastly, there is a small section of scores dedicated to the Reconstruction era, the temperance movement, and poverty, along with a small representation of police forces and postal workers throughout the U.S. Key scores to note are "Get Off The Track!" an emancipation song performed by the Hutchinson Family Singers, and "The Prize Banner Quick Step," a Whig Party campaign score composed and arranged by D.H. Haskell.
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