Monday, August 19, 2019

Old Sheet Music, Part 1

We continue excavating the seemingly bottomless basement, and this week it exuded a big stack of early-20th-century sheet music to the surface. It's going to be leaving our house in some way (donated somewhere), but before that it has been photographed. Here are a few of my favorites. Tomorrow, a few of my unfavorites.

I'll put the images in order from the ones with the least ornament and illustration to the ones with the most illustration:






















The range from Victoriana to Art Nouveau, almost all in lettering rather than type, was fun to see. Some of the content, as I'll show tomorrow, was less fun.

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