The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at the Johns Hopkins University



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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	ILLUSTRATORS Boxes 55-56 (147 items) This group consists of sheet music with lithographed covers illustrated by well known American artists. Represented here are Winslow Homer in the 1850s; FitzHugh Lane and Alfred J. Miller in the 1830s and 1840s; and H. Inman and W.I. Champney. The cover illustration for "Song of the Graduates of 1852 United States Military Academy" was designed by James McNeill Whistler. There are 87 lithographed covers by Nathaniel Currier, mostly of the 1830s and 1840s and before his partnership with James M. Ives. Currier illustrated many comic songs. One of his earliest covers was "My Long Tail Blue" published in New York in the mid-1830s. Other Curriers appeared in the late 1830s and the early 1840s, for instance "The Table d'H“te", "The Tee-Total Society", and "The Handsome Man". Also included are a set of reproductions of music covers by such modern French artists as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Fernand L‚ger, and Georges Braque. << Back \| Next >>

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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	ILLUSTRATORS Boxes 55-56 (147 items) This group consists of sheet music with lithographed covers illustrated by well known American artists. Represented here are Winslow Homer in the 1850s; FitzHugh Lane and Alfred J. Miller in the 1830s and 1840s; and H. Inman and W.I. Champney. The cover illustration for "Song of the Graduates of 1852 United States Military Academy" was designed by James McNeill Whistler. There are 87 lithographed covers by Nathaniel Currier, mostly of the 1830s and 1840s and before his partnership with James M. Ives. Currier illustrated many comic songs. One of his earliest covers was "My Long Tail Blue" published in New York in the mid-1830s. Other Curriers appeared in the late 1830s and the early 1840s, for instance "The Table d'H“te", "The Tee-Total Society", and "The Handsome Man". Also included are a set of reproductions of music covers by such modern French artists as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Fernand L‚ger, and Georges Braque. << Back \| Next >>

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