Sheet Music
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Music
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Music / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1803-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Music, Subseries 2.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is listed in alphabetical order by title.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Sheet Music in this collection is of greatest interest for the illustrations on the covers. Occasionally the cover or the back of the sheet music would advertise a product such as medicine, furniture, and sewing machines. Images include romance, transportation, military, women, and African Americans. Themes often included war, automobile riding, airplane riding, love songs, death, childhood, patriotic songs, world's fairs and campaign songs. Such themes reflected contemporary society -- advances in aviation, changes in transportation from horses to trains and automobiles; the effect of war; courtship and romance; and the changing status of women in American society. Even the art styles changed from the realism of the 1800s to the use of lithographs and Art Nouveau styles of the early 1920s. The later pieces often use photographs of the performers or composers to illustrate the music.