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	MARITIME Boxes 181-183 (436 items) One of the most popular of the earliest pieces in this group is "The Bird at Sea", written and published by Baltimoreans. But there are many others to catch the public eye and ear. "The Great Western" is descriptive of the first ship to cross the Atlantic to New York by the use of steam. There are several pieces about the America's Cup Races between the English and the American boats, with the Americans always the leaders, ever since the first challenge round in 1851. The mighty clipper ships, the marauding pirates, the Artic explorers, even a whaling vessel, are depicted, along with wrecks and storms plaguing the mariners. Ferryboats, sailboats of many sizes, and even an occasional canoe, earned musical tributes. << 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	MARITIME Boxes 181-183 (436 items) One of the most popular of the earliest pieces in this group is "The Bird at Sea", written and published by Baltimoreans. But there are many others to catch the public eye and ear. "The Great Western" is descriptive of the first ship to cross the Atlantic to New York by the use of steam. There are several pieces about the America's Cup Races between the English and the American boats, with the Americans always the leaders, ever since the first challenge round in 1851. The mighty clipper ships, the marauding pirates, the Artic explorers, even a whaling vessel, are depicted, along with wrecks and storms plaguing the mariners. Ferryboats, sailboats of many sizes, and even an occasional canoe, earned musical tributes. << Back \| Next >>

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