A-F, Balloons
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 1: Transportation
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 1: Transportation / 1.1: Aeronautics
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1854-1963
container: label: Container
content: Box 6, Folder A-F
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The bulk of the material is from the 1890s to the 1920s. Items from the 1950s to the 1960s are moving picture music. Two covers from World War I depict military use of dirigibles. Five European imprints are included. Many of the pieces are instrumental (piano) marches, two-steps, or ragtime music. Some covers feature photographs of actual balloons or dirigibles or the battered remains of a wreck. Science fiction songs about space flight by balloon are also included. (circa 125 items)