Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI Search this
Physical description:
5 pages of music 32 cm
Type:
Art
Advertisements
Allegorical prints
Dance music
Marches (Music)
Popular music
Scores
Sheet music covers
Sheet music
Place:
United States
Date:
1900
To 1901
1900-1910
Notes:
Illustrated title page shows an image of Columbia (Liberty?), with a light bulb resting on her head, standing on a winged wheel and holding a small banner aloft with the words "XX Century". She is surrounded by depictions of industrial innovations and modern inventions: sewing machine, camera, mechanical reaper and binder, steam locomotive, automobile, typewriter, telegraph machine, trolley car, dynamo?, an unidentified piece of machinery, and a telephone
Publisher's advertisement on verso of page 5 has caption: A specially selected catalogue of E.T. Paull's compositions and march arrangements. Each piece magnificently lithographed in five colors