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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 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

An MP3 recording of the song "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" lasting 8 mins. and 1 sec. long.

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…

Sheet music to "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" by Gustav Luders

A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Ernst Luz's "Dramatic Andante (Pathetic or Romantic)"

A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Ernst Luz's "Intermezzo—Trot"

Photoplay cue music for "Dramatic Andante" from A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.15: “Society reception or cabaret scene”

Photoplay cue music for "Intermezzo-Trot" from A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.15: “Society reception or cabaret scene”

Cover image from sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson

Sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson

An MP3 recording of the song "Midway Plaisance" lasting 4 mins. and 45 secs. long.

An black and white photograph of a man being removed by another man and a police officer from a bar or shop nearby. He is clearly either drunk or been in a fight on what the photographer writes is Christmas Eve night. (East 78th Street & 3rd Avenue,…

A close-up black and white photograph of three men on a porch stoop. They are obviously homeless, desolate, and probably drinking alcohol in the image.

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Joan Jett Blakk ad for President. She replicates the pose of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Sheet music for "Original Hesitation Waltz" by McNair Ilgenfritz, theory by Alice Martin.

Photograph of the Convent of Mercy, which was mentioned in Francis O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections

An MP3 recording of the song "The Columbian Polka" lasting 3 mins. and 45 secs. long.

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

Sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading

Anti-aircraft Bofors gun overlooking a beach in Algeria.

The image shows the raising of a block of brick buildings on Lake Street, Chicago, in 1857.

Don Meyer and the Lake Forest Moving Picture Orchestra present Max Wants a Divorce at Lake Forest College on February 6, 2017.

1916 Max Linder film with live accompaniment by the Lake Forest Moving Picture Orchestra, recorded February 2016. Features original music from the Silent era by composers such as J.S. Zamecnik, arranged by Don Meyer.

Fast & Cheap, 2018: (L to R) Liz Meyer, Jim Cubit, Joyce DeWitt, Cynthia Hahn, Don Meyer, Rand Smith