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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	LAFAYETTE Box 85 (45 items) At the suggestion of President James Monroe, both Houses of Congress unanimously passed a resolution in January 1824 in which they invited the Marquis de LaFayette to visit the United States as the guest of the nation. During the year or so that he spent in the United States his tour included the Atlantic seaboard, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; then up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, back to Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and to New York State once more by way of Niagra Falls. His visit was a triumphant success. He was feted everywhere and the object of the most enthusiastic acclaim. Songs, marches, and special dance music were composed and performed in his honor, and the titles of some of this music indicate the popular devotion he aroused: "Welcome the Nation's Guest", "The Chivalrous Knight of France", "Come Honor the Brave ", and "Washington's Favorite, the Brave LaFayette". Some of the pieces in this section were written as eulogies after LaFayette's death. << 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	LAFAYETTE Box 85 (45 items) At the suggestion of President James Monroe, both Houses of Congress unanimously passed a resolution in January 1824 in which they invited the Marquis de LaFayette to visit the United States as the guest of the nation. During the year or so that he spent in the United States his tour included the Atlantic seaboard, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; then up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, back to Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and to New York State once more by way of Niagra Falls. His visit was a triumphant success. He was feted everywhere and the object of the most enthusiastic acclaim. Songs, marches, and special dance music were composed and performed in his honor, and the titles of some of this music indicate the popular devotion he aroused: "Welcome the Nation's Guest", "The Chivalrous Knight of France", "Come Honor the Brave ", and "Washington's Favorite, the Brave LaFayette". Some of the pieces in this section were written as eulogies after LaFayette's death. << Back \| Next >>

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