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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 7: Sports

National Museum of American History

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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 7: Sports
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0300.S07
Creator
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Date
1834-1983
Materials in Other Organizations
Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana This collection contains duplicates of materials in the Smithsonian collection, as well as materials acquired by Mr. DeVincent after the donation to the Smithsonian. The phonograph records described above were transferred to the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Donald J. Stubblebine Collection of Musical Theater and Motion Picture Sheet Music and Reference Material, 1843-2010 (AC1211)
Forms Part Of
Series 7: Sports forms part of the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music . An ongoing, updated list of DeVincent topical series is available via the Smithsonian finding aid portal.
Provenance
This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent.
Extent
11 Boxes
Summary
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 7: Sports contains 1,254 pieces of sheet music and song folios. Most of the sheet music is either piano or piano/ vocal arrangements. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Arrangement note
Arranged in 17 subseries. 7.1: Baseball 7.2: Boxing 7.3: Fishing 7.4: Football 7.5: Gambling and Games of Chance 7.6: Golf 7.7: Horse Racing 7.8: Hunting 7.9: Ice Skating 7.10: Olympics 7.11: Ping Pong 7.12: Roller Skating 7.13: Skiing 7.14: Sleighs and Sledding 7.15: Sports, Miscellaneous 7.16: Tennis 7.17: Ephemera
Scope and Contents note
Some of the subseries in Series 7: SPORTS are identified utilizing DeVincent's original subject terms. In addition, the archivist has introduced other subseries titles Gambling and Games of Chance; Olympics, Sleighs and Sledding. This series contains 1,254 pieces of sheet music and song folios. Most of the sheet music is either piano or piano/ vocal arrangements. The material dates from 1834 to 1983. Some nineteenth-century imprints are not dated. The song sheets in this series are arranged into sixteen subseries and alphabetically there under. The largest subseries are Baseball (7.1) with 301 items and Football (7.4) with 239 items . The Football subseries contains mainly University and College football songs. The items in the folders are arranged by the name of the University and/or College and there under alphabetically. These institutions of higher learning are listed in the finding aid at the beginning of each folder. A small number of football and sports songs may be found in the University and College song Folios, which are located in unprocessed boxes under DeVincent's topical title "University and College." Nineteenth-century lithographic illustrations may be found on song sheets in several subseries including Fishing (7.3), Football (7.4), Hunting (7.8), Ice Skating (7.9), and Sleighs and Sledding (7.14). Pieces of music from operas "Der Freischutz" by Weber and "Cinderella" by Rossini may be found in the Hunting subseries. The Motion Picture Production folder in the Ice Skating subseries (7.9) contains mainly songs from Ice Review movies with Sonja Henie.
Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Creator
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Citation
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503513397031-1503513397039-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8af874553-3f23-4ca7-bbf0-9e83571db181

In the Collection

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  • Fair Harvard sheet music

  • Songs relating to Cards Games

  • Roll On, Tulane (The Olive and Blue) sheet music

  • L-M, 1899-1940,1960 Lane C., Louisiana U., Loyola U. of South, U. of Maine, Marquette U., U. of Michigan, and U. of Minnesota.

  • Football; or, Misery and Mud sheet music

  • Songs about Players

  • Field Day sheet music,

  • On Iowa sheet music

  • I Fell Asleep at the Football Game sheet music

  • General Songs

  • Football Freddy (My Collegiate Man) sheet music

  • General Songs regarding Sports and Clubs

  • The Gambling Man sheet music

  • Songs about Boxers

  • Hip-Hip-Hoo-Ray sheet music

  • Players

  • Horse Racing

  • Big Chief Eli (A Yale War Song) sheet music

  • The Red Stockings sheet music

  • The Galloping A's sheet music

  • Marathon sheet music,

  • I Can't Get to First Base with You sheet music

  • Lovey Girl sheet music

  • The Rush Line sheet music

  • Songs about Card Gamblers

  • F-I, 1895-1942 U. of Florida, Fordham U., Grand Rapids C., C. of the Holy Cross, Harvard U., U. of Illinois, Champaign; Indiana U., and U. of Iowa.

  • Good Night Harvard sheet music

  • Oh! You / "Babe" Ruth sheet music

  • Team Songs

  • Steal! Slide! Anyway! sheet music

  • Joe Louis

  • Harvardiana sheet music

  • Tally One For Me sheet music

  • Football Blues sheet music

  • Come On You Athletics sheet music

  • The Fencing Girl sheet music

  • March of the Cardinals sheet music

  • Sports, Miscellaneous

  • Yale U.

  • The Illinois Loyalty Song sheet music

  • Team Songs

  • General Songs

  • Three Times Three For Harvard sheet music

  • Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn sheet music

  • O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg sheet music

  • Men of Yost sheet music

  • Motion Picture Productions

  • Cheer Leader Charlie sheet music

  • Songs relating to Various Kinds of Sports

  • R-W, 1907-1947 Rensselaer Poly. I., U. of San-Francisco, Stanford U., Temple U., Tulane U., U. of Tulsa, Valparaiso U., U.S.A.F. Academy, Virginia Military I., Vanderbilt U., U. of Washington, Washington and Lee U., West Point Academy, William and Merry C., Wisconsin U., and C. of Wooster.

  • General Songs

  • Boxing

  • Brown Bomber sheet music

  • Team Songs

  • The Victors sheet music

  • Baseball

  • Gambling and Games of Chance

  • Players

  • Down the Field sheet music

  • Songs regarding Various Horse Races

  • General Songs, 1894-1953, 1978, not related to any University or Club.

  • I Never Believed in Lucky Numbers sheet music

  • All the Way Choo Choo sheet music

  • Football

  • Russischer Schnellläufer or Schnell-läufer / Russian Galop / Polka für Pianoforte...Op. 14 sheet music

  • Yale University March sheet music

  • Players

  • Move Over, Babe (Here Comes Henry) sheet music

  • Maybe It's Love sheet music

  • Down the Field sheet music

  • General Songs, 1867 1970, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.

  • Dan Patch sheet music

  • Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1905-1928 "Every Time the Clock Ticks," 1923, TOP HOLE "Follow Thru," 1928, FOLLOW THRU "Golfing Blues," 1923, ARTISTS AND MODELS and THE PASSING SHOW OF 1923

  • 7.14: Sleigh Ride and Sledding

  • Take me out to the ball game sheet music

  • Players

  • Songs regarding Roller Derby

  • Professional/Artist Copies

  • Sleighs and Sledding

  • General Songs

  • Songs Regarding Fishing In Childhood

  • Roller Skating

  • Motion Picture Productions

  • 1900-1901

  • I've Gone Goofy over Miniature Golf sheet music

  • 7.6: Golf

  • General Songs about Cards

  • 1902-1904

  • General Songs

  • Golf

  • Songs with Names of Cards in the Title

  • Miscellaneous References to Baseball

  • Players as Songwriters or Performers

  • 7.2: Boxing

  • 7.4: Football

  • Songs regarding Betting

  • Folios

  • Professional Club Songs

  • General Songs

  • Songsheets with Golfing Theme on Covers, 1927-1941.

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