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Wonderful lot of 12 antique and vintage patriotic sheet-music pieces featuring colorful illustrated covers and themes of American military service, hometown pride, travel, nostalgia, and early-20th-century popular culture.
This visually striking collection includes music connected with the Army, Navy, World War I era, Broadway, and classic American states and regions. The covers feature soldiers, sailors, battleships, flags, marching troops, rural landscapes, and beautiful period typography. Together, they create an impressive group for collectors of antique sheet music, military memorabilia, Americana, advertising artwork, or historic paper ephemera.
Titles included are:
Ethel Levy’s Virginia Song — written and composed by George M. Cohan
Here Comes the Navy
A Lad Who Went to War
When I’m a Man Like Dad
A Little Boy Called “Taps”
We’re in the Navy Now: A Musical Journey Around the World
Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France
Hike! Hike! Hike! (Along the Old Turn Pike)
’Cross the Great Divide (I’ll Wait for You)
Roll On, Missouri
Indiana
I Want to Go Back to Michigan, Down on the Farm — words and music by Irving Berlin
Highlights include patriotic military imagery, an impressive battleship illustration, marching soldiers, a bugler playing taps, World War I–era artwork, scenic state-themed covers, and music associated with notable composers and lyricists such as George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin.
The pieces display beautifully and retain plenty of rich vintage character. As expected with original paper items of this age, they show varying degrees of normal age-related wear, including edge wear, small tears, creasing, toning, writing, and other signs of previous handling. These details contribute to their authentic antique appearance. Please examine all photographs closely, as they are an important part of the description and show the exact items included.
An excellent collection for:
Antique sheet-music collectors
World War I and military memorabilia enthusiasts
Americana and patriotic décor
Theater and Broadway history collections
Framing, display, or archival preservation
Vintage paper and graphic-art collectors
All 12 pieces are being sold together as one lot. No individual pieces are being separated. The collection will be carefully packaged for shipment to help protect the historic paper and illustrated covers.
