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	POSTAL SERVICE Box 103 (52 items) This small section includes two pieces with music very inferior to the title page. One, "The Stamp Galop", published in 1864, displays the stamps of the period in a score of countries around the globe, including the rare and handsome three-cornered stamp from the Cape of Good Hope. The other, "The American Stamp Polka", of 1864, has a strictly American cover with the black and white 2-cent stamp with Andrew Jackson portrayed in each corner. The first American postcard, issued in 1875, was given a musical tribute. In these days, when the cost of postage seems to be rising automatically, our eyes may be opened when we learn that in 1883 the cost of sending an ordinary letter was reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents, an unusual procedure which produced a song called "Good Bye Old Stamp, Good Bye". << 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	POSTAL SERVICE Box 103 (52 items) This small section includes two pieces with music very inferior to the title page. One, "The Stamp Galop", published in 1864, displays the stamps of the period in a score of countries around the globe, including the rare and handsome three-cornered stamp from the Cape of Good Hope. The other, "The American Stamp Polka", of 1864, has a strictly American cover with the black and white 2-cent stamp with Andrew Jackson portrayed in each corner. The first American postcard, issued in 1875, was given a musical tribute. In these days, when the cost of postage seems to be rising automatically, our eyes may be opened when we learn that in 1883 the cost of sending an ordinary letter was reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents, an unusual procedure which produced a song called "Good Bye Old Stamp, Good Bye". << Back \| Next >>

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