Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 26: General Sheet Music
name: label: Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent.
creator: label: Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 26: General Sheet Music
abstract: label: Summary
content: Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 26 contains materials documenting the business of and popular attitudes towards collecting in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 105 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1865-1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0300.S26
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Eva Buchanan, Katie DeFonzo, and Stephanie Haeg, interns, summer 2017; Amanda Scott; Monisha Bernard; Justine Thomas, spring 2018; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of material that does not relate to subjects created by the Archives Center in series 1-25. The bulk of the material dates from 1865 to 1939 and is arranged into four subseries. Subseries 1 includes Individual Songs contained in boxes 1-86. Subseries 2 is Unidentified Songs included in boxes 92-94. Subseries 3 consists of Multiple Songs, sheet music with more than one title, in boxes 95-96. Subseries 4, Other Subjects, included in boxes 86-91 and 97-105, includes materials related to different genres of music, themes, and composers.
relatedmaterial: label: Materials in Other Organizations
content: Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

This collection contains duplicates of materials in the Smithsonian collection, as well as materials acquired by Mr. DeVincent after the donation to the Smithsonian. The phonograph records described above were transferred to the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
label: Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History
content: Donald J. Stubblebine Collection of Musical Theater and Motion Picture Sheet Music and Reference Material, 1843-2010 (AC1211)
label: Forms Part Of
content: Series 26: General Sheet Music forms part of the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.

An ongoing, updated list of DeVincent topical series is available via the Smithsonian finding aid portal.