“Casey Jones”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1909
name: label: lyricist
content: Seibert, T. Lawrence
label: composer
content: Newton, Eddie
label: publisher
content: A. Cox and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the song “Casey Jones: The Brave Engineer.” The lyrics were written by T. Lawrence Seibert and Eddie Newton composed the music. The song was published by A. Cox and Co. of Toronto, Canada in 1909. The cover features an image of a locomotive coming towards the reader, with photos of Seibert and Newton in the train engine’s windows. The song, also known as the Ballad of Casey Jones, was written to commemorate engineer Jones giving up his life to slow down his train enough to prevent a more disastrous crash with a train that was stopped on the tracks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada: Ontarian, Toronto
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Sheet Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janice Plowman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0736.08
label: accession number
content: 1982.0736
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0736.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 32.385 cm x 24.765 cm