Dance Bands and Orchestras
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
setName: label: See more items in
content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1905-1964, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0300.S11, Subseries 11.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Subseries 2, Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1905-1964, undated. The covers of these sheets feature photos of bandleaders and, in many cases, the band members. Female bandleaders are in a separate folder. The end of this subseries consists of big band theme songs. Note that in Folders CCCC-NNNN, Miscellaneous Male Bandleaders, the sheets are arranged alphabetically by last name of the band leader and not by song title.