Cover image of sheet music for "The Streets of Cairo, or, The Poor Little Country Maid," by James Thornton.
James Thornton was an Irish-born comedian and songwriter who achieved moderate success on the vaudeville stage around the turn of the…
Cover image and audio recording of "The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step, by Samuel Lapin. Cover image includes a photo by J.B. Quirk Cut Co. of decorated ferris wheels and an unattributed photo of Lapin
Cover image for sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading, "Dedicated by permission to Mrs. Potter Palmer, President, board of Lady Managers at the World's Columbian Exposition"--Cover
Gustav Luders (sometimes spelled “Lueders”, 1865–1913) was a minor composer of operettas in the late nineteenth century. Born and trained in Germany, he immigrated first to Milwaukee in 1888 and then became a musical theater director and…
