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Title: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Bridge Crush March (Descriptive)
Description: Stylized text, "Bandmaster of Slafer's Brooklyn Marine Band. Price 50 Cents." Cover features photographs of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle building and William E. Slafer, as well as an illustration of crowds of people boarding trolleys.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0033

Title: Be Sure and Try These on Your Piano [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of March of the Veterans. Advertisement featuring sample sheet music in green, including the songs: Dream Whispers, Pictures of Fancy, Singing Birds and Pattering Rain. Text, "Complete copies available at all Music Stores."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0023

Title: Drake's Cake Walk
Description: Stylized text and border around an illustration of a cake that is decorated with a horseshoe and flowers. The words "Good Luck" are written on the horseshoe.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0034

Title: Blasius, Albrecht and Regent Pianos and Piano Players [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brighton Beach March. Advertisement for Blasius & Sons, piano sellers. Featuring sheet music for, "Song to the Stars." Text, "Buy your piano direct from the manufacturer. Save all immediate profits - easy terms."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0031

Title: Bergen Beach Schottisch
Description: Stylized text and decorative details in dark blue font. "Pr. 40¢. Entered at Stationer's Hall London Eng."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0022

Title: "When the Flowers Bloom in Spring-time" "Molly Dear" [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Mariutch (Make-a the Hootch-a Ma Kootch) Down at Coney Isle. Sample of the sheet music for "When the Flowers Bloom in Spring-time" "Molly Dear."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0032

Title: Read The Brooklyn Citizen [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brooklyn Citizen March advertising the newspaper, The Brooklyn Citizen. Sample text, "Read The Brooklyn Citizen today, tomorrow and all the time if you wish to keep in touch with the news of the day. Daily, 2 Cents. Sunday 3 Cents."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0018

Title: Unser Neue Heim [Our New Home] [Unzer Nayeheim]
Description: Cover features blue-toned portrait photographs of Isidor Lilien (in tuxedo) and Peretz Sandler (in suit). Titles printed in Latin and Hebrew alphabets. Text, "Liberty Theatre Success." The title refers to Israel as the new home.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0047

Title: The Original Chateau Three Step
Description: Pale green background featuring an illustration of a chateau enveloped by clouds and a copy of a letter from William Pitt Rivers complimenting Will Donaldson on his three step composition. Stylized text, "with complete instructions for dancing."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0045

Title: When the Twilight Comes to Kiss the Rose 'Good-Night [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Original Chateau Three Step advertising the song, "When the Twilight Comes to Kiss the Rose 'Good-Night.'" Includes cover art and sample bars from sheet music. Also, features listing of various song titles available from publisher's stock.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0045

Title: Peeking thro' the Bars
Description: Illustration of farm with animals and a woman drawing water from a well. An elegantly dressed young woman is standing by a fence in the foreground. Stylized text resembles tree branches.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0009

Title: The Sterling March and Two-Step
Description: Stylized text, "Founder of the Sterling Co. in 1860" underneath a black and white portrait of Chas A. Sterling. Illustrations of wreaths with ribbons amongst a faded pale purple background.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0035

Title: Army and Navy Waltzes
Description: Stylized text with decorative flourishes enclosed in border, "Pr. 50¢."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0017

Title: Born and Bred in Brooklyn (Over the Bridge)
Description: Color illustration of a woman (wearing pearls and a hat) standing in front of city skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge. Photograph of George M. Cohan. List of songs from the show and their prices listed on cover. Operatic edition emblem in lower left corner.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0050

Title: The Brooklyn Society Two-Step
Description: Photograph of James Pringle, in formal wear, standing in front of a chair with his hand on a book. Photo is signed, "Yours truly, James Pringle." Stylized text with decorative drawings in purple font. Stamped with a number 5.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0019

Title: Brooklyn's March [Opus 79]
Description: Dark red decorative flourishes and stylized text, " As performed by Conterno's Famous Concert Band." Signed purple-toned photograph featuring G. E. Conterno in uniform holding a conductor's baton.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0025

Title: Brooklyn Belle Barn Dance
Description: Color illustration of an elegant woman in a large, plumed hat. Red stylized text. Text, "Septett 1/=nett. Full orchestra 1/6."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0037

Title: Brooklyn Bridge March
Description: Bold text and decorative details enclosed in border.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0006

Title: Standard Song Favorites [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey featuring advertisements for Broadway Music Corporation stock including: Ain't You Ashamed, Alcoholic Blues, At the Fountain of Youth, Be Still My Heart, Chile Bean and others.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0038

Title: Hurrah for Bushwick High
Description: Black and white drawing of the front exterior of Bushwick High School. Stylized text.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0041

Title: Nesting Time in Flatbush
Description: Black and orange cover with geometric design. Songs from "Oh Boy!" listed on cover: A Pal Like You, Words are Not Needed, Till the Clouds Roll By, Be a Little Sunbeam, An Old Fashioned Wife, Nesting Time, Ain't it a Glorious Feeling, etc.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0046

Title: Standard Song Favorites [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey featuring advertisements for Broadway Music stock including: Ain't You Ashamed, Alcoholic Blues, At the Fountain of Youth, Be Still My Heart, Chile Bean and others.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0039

Title: Coney Island March and Two-Step
Description: Decorative flourishes and stylized text in dark blue. Black and white photograph of Harry A. Prior with moustache wearing suit, tie and overcoat.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0026

Title: Strolling on the Brooklyn Bridge
Description: Illustration of a woman wearing headdress and hoop earrings surrounded by decorative details and black border. Stamped with, C. Robinson & Co., Music Dealers, Cooper Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0007

Title: The Marvelously Successful Compositions of John Philip Sousa [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of the Manhattan Beach March. Advertisement for other sheet music Sousa marches including, Hands Across the Sea, Charlatan, Bride Elect, Stars and Stripes Forever, El Captan, Directorate, King Cotton, Liberty Bell, Manhattan Beach.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0015

Title: Der Schwerd Fin Blut Und Treiren [The Sword of Blood and Tears]
Description: Sepia photograph of Jacob P. Adler with the words, "As he is to-day." Text, "As sung with great success by the greatest living Jewish Tragedian. In his foremost production 'The War Victims' at the Liberty Theatre." Title in Latin and Hebrew alphabets.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0043

Title: Try These on Your Piano [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Bergen Beach Schottisch. Advertisement featuring sample sheet music in blue including the songs: Hindoo Polka Brillante, Oxford Berlin, The Black Diamond Yorke and Cyclone Echoes.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0022

Title: Crossing on the Ferry
Description: Illustration with stylized text. Text, "To the citizens of Brooklyn.... by Bobby Newcomb, author of 'Skating in the Park."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0001

Title: Summertime, When All the Girls Get Back From School
Description: Blue and orange illustrations of the Hotel Shelburne, Reisenweber's and a woman in the ocean wearing a swimsuit and cap. Stylized text, "from Reisenweber's Summer Revue, 'Splash Me, 1916.' Produced at the Hotel Shelburne."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0044

Title: The Sterling March and Two-Step
Description: Stylized text, "Founder of the Sterling Co. in 1860" underneath a black and white portrait of Chas A. Sterling. Illustrations of wreaths with ribbons amongst a faded pale purple background.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0036

Title: Second Battalion March
Description: Stylized dark pink text, "The Battalion photographed at Sands Point, L.I. Sunday duty 25.97." Illustrations of a rope and anchor surround a black and white photograph of the 2nd Naval Battalion in full uniform on the beach at Sands Point.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0024

Title: Liberty Bell March [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of the Manhattan Beach March. Black and white illustration of portrait of John Philip Sousa above an illustration of the Liberty Bell.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0014

Title: Yosem Leid; Dos Glick Kumt Nor Ain Mol in Leben [Orphan Song; Luck Comes Only Once in Life]
Description: Cover features dark blue decorative border and photograph of Peretz Sandler. Text, "Two successful songs. Price 20 cents." Show title printed in Latin and Hebrew alphabets.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0049

Title: "Our Boys" Waltzes
Description: Bold black text on coral colored paper. Text, "As played by Wernig's 23d, Downing's 9th, and Grafulla's 7th Regiment Bands. Piano, 60 Cents. Orchestra."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0005

Title: The Brooklyn Citizen March
Description: Decorative border with stylized text, "Compliments of The Manager of The Long Island Department. As rendered with great success by the Patchogue String Band, Patchogue, N.Y. 'Citizen' Job Print."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0018

Title: The Permans' Brooklyn Cake Walk
Description: Stylized text interwoven with illustration of flowering tree branch. Text, "Publisher's of Smallwood's celebrated pianoforte tutor, Smallwood's 55 melodious exercises, etc. Price 4/=, Band Parts 1/=nett."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0027

Title: Arion Piano Forte [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brooklyn Life Waltzes. Ad, "Arion Piano Forte. Par excellence. The piano of the age. Elegance and excellence ... to be had at McDonald's old established Arion Piano Warerooms... Golden piano."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0004

Title: New York and Coney Island Cycle March Two-Step
Description: Full color illustration featuring a man and a woman riding bicycles along the Coney Island Fairgrounds. Four bicycles wheels are featured in the corners, each surrounding a different Coney Island attraction. Possibly number 5 in a series.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0021

Title: Those Lovely Brooklyn Girls
Description: Text with decorative details. Text, "Corinne's Great Song, Those Lovely Brooklyn Girls."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0012

Title: Martin's Silver Dress Parade
Description: Dark blue and white cover featuring a drawing of the profile and back view of a woman fashionably dressed. In art deco style. Dates, 1903 and 1928 displayed at bottom. Initials, "F.J.M" displayed on bottom right corner.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0030

Title: A Thematic List of Popular Pieces [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Brooklyn Glide Waltzes. Advertisement for other music such as, Angel's Kisses Nocturne, Chums Polka, Chums Waltz, Flight of the Swallows, etc. including sample verses, composer information and price.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0010

Title: Veni Creator Spiritus
Description: Illustration of sheet music template to look like carved wood. Text, "For soprano or tenor by Victor Frei, Organist of St. Augustine's Church. 50¢"
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0008

Title: Professor Victor Frei's Conservatory of Music [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Veni Creator Spiritus. Ad in German and English offering classes in instrumental music, vocal lessons and theoretical music studies for children.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0008

Title: Alphonzo Smith Offers His Large and Extensive Assortment of Piano-Fortes and Organs of All the Leading Makers [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of Shew Fly Polka Redowa. Illustration of piano on green paper with text, "..the celebrated "Wheelock" piano-fortes and world renowned "Estey" organs. Extremely low for cash or from $5 to $10 monthly until fully paid.."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0002

Title: Brighton Beach March
Description: Large, stylized text and pink background. Pink, dark red, and green illustration of the ocean, clouds, birds, sailboats, shells and flowers.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0031

Title: Manhattan Beach March
Description: Illustration of portrait of John Philip Sousa above the Manhattan Beach Hotel. Stamped with "Property of N. B. Borden, Jr." Stamped with a number seven. Annotation, "Annie R. Smith. Feb. 19, '95."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0014

Title: The Sterling Piano Co. [advertisement]
Description: Back cover of The Sterling March and Two-Step advertising piano renting, repairing, tuning, moving, storing and piano accessories. Illustration of The Sterling Building. Text, "The largest wholesale and retail piano business..."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0036

Title: Brooklyn Glide Waltzes
Description: Template illustration of leaves framing text. Music includes references to: Moonlight on the O., Flight of the Swallows, Angel Kisses, Grand Military Review, Wait for the breaking of the day, I will always remember, etc.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0010

Title: Brooklyn High School March
Description: Sheet music without cover.
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers
Local Identifier: sm0016

Title: Shew Fly Polka Redowa
Description: Color illustration of people working and sitting outdoors with cows. Barn and house in background. On light green paper. Text, "1887. Our spring offering. Alphonzo Smith, dealer in pianos, organs and music. Read our great offer on outside back-page."
Type: still image, text
Genre: Sheet music covers, Advertisements
Local Identifier: sm0002

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