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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 15: Holidays and Celebrations

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
Provenance
This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent.
Creator
DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 15: Holidays and Celebrations
Summary
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 15, Holidays and Celebrations contains approximately 500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards holidays, celebrations, and travel in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
Extent
6 Boxes
Date
1847-1982
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0300.S15
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Citation
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement note
Arranged in 11 subseries. 15.1: Holiday, Travel, Vacation 15.2: Carnival 15.3: Mardi Gras 15.4: Masquerade 15.5: Halloween 15.6: Thanksgiving 15.7: New Year 15.8: Park 15.9: Picnic 15.10: Rolling Chairs 15.11: Ephemera
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.
Scope and Contents note
Series 15, Holidays and Celebrations, 1847-1982, undated, contains approximately 500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards holidays, celebrations, and travel in the United States. Note that Christmas items are in Series 10, Sacred Music and Religious Themes, subseries 7. Series 15 is divided into nine. The music comprises about two cubic feet plus one folder in Ephemera. Sheets are arranged alphabetically within each folder. Note that the dates always refer to copyright of the music and not to an event, person's life, or performance.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
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 15: Holidays and Celebrations 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.
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Record ID
ebl-1503513397303-1503513397306-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8b355cc51-ad08-4408-a127-c192770f919f

In the Collection

  • Holiday, Travel, Vacation

  • Travel

  • Holiday

  • General Songs

  • Folio, Holiday Songs (and Everyday Songs and Games), tenth edition

  • Vacation

  • Carnival

  • Halloween, A-G

  • Masquerade

  • Mardi Gras

  • Halloween

  • Park

  • Ghosts

  • Folio, Song of Thanksgiving, Novello's Original Octavo Edition

  • Multiple editions of "The Witches Dance," two compositions by J.

  • B-R

  • Thanksgiving

  • H-Y

  • Witches

  • General Songs

  • Harvest Titles

  • S-W

  • Picnic

  • Rolling Chairs

  • New Year

  • New Year - one article, six pages of New Year messages, two pages of titles, WOWO music log for January 1, and two pages of 'see' notes

  • Thanksgiving - contains 25 articles, cartoons, poems, and messages, six church programs, two items in the over-size box, a BMI promo, WOWO music logs, and two pages of 'see' notes.

  • Halloween - contains four articles and two pages of 'see' notes.

  • Ephemera

  • Carnival and Mardi Gras - contains list of Mardi Gras titles and one page of 'see' notes.

Holidays and Celebrations
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