Guide to the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 NMAH Staff Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Scope and Contents note................................................................................................ 2 Arrangement note............................................................................................................ 2 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 3 Subseries 12.1: Trees, 1833-1969, undated............................................................ 3 Subseries 12.2: Plants and Flowers, 1840-1979, undated...................................... 4 Subseries 12.3: Animals, 1831-1984, undated...................................................... 12 Subseries 12.4: Fish, Mermaids, and Aquatic Animals, 1832-1978, undated........ 20 Subseries 12.5: Birds, 1834-1976, undated........................................................... 20 Subseries 12.6: Insects and Spiders, 1834-1980, undated.................................... 25 Subseries 12.7: Ephemera, 1901-1987, undated................................................... 27 Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals Identifier: NMAH.AC.0300.S12 Date: 1831-1984, undated Extent: 40 Boxes Creator: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997 Language: English Summary: Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music. Digital Image(s): Plants and Animals Content: Administrative Information Acquisition Information This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent. 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) Page 1 of 28 Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 Forms Part Of Series 12: Plants and Animals 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. Preferred Citation The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Restrictions Collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use 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 Series 12, Plants and Animals, 1831-1984, undated, contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. The materials are grouped by subject and arranged alphabetically by title within each folder unless otherwise noted in the container list. The dates of the sheet music refer to the copyright of the music and not to the subject on the cover, songwriter's life, or other events. In addition, there is one box of ephemera arranged in the same subseries order as the music listing, which is described following the container list. Material related to this series within the DeVincent Collection may be found in Series 8, Geography; Series 13, Business, Commerce, and Law; and Series 14, Calendar, Time and Weather. Arrangement Arranged in 7 subseries. • 12.1: Trees • 12.2: Plants and Flowers • 12.3: Animals • 12.4: Fish, Mermaids, and Aquatic Animals • 12.5: Birds • 12.6: Insects and Spiders • 12.7: Ephemera Page 2 of 28 Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 Container Listing Subseries 12.1: Trees, 1833-1969, undated Subseries 1, Trees, 1833-1969, undated, includes all titles with the words: Arbor, Branches, Forest, Leaves, Timber, Twigs, Trees and Woods. There are also two Wood Nymph songs in Folders A and B. Magnolias, Oaks, Pines, and Willows have their own folders. The two folders with miscellaneous tree titles, for example, Beech, Birch, Chestnut, are arranged alphabetically by type of tree and not by the first word of the title. Box 1, Folder A-C Arbor, Forest, and Woods titles, 1841-1947, undated Box 1, Folder A A - V 25 Items Includes: "Blacksmith in the Woods," "Dance of the Wood Nymphs," and "Timber Auction Polka." Box 1, Folder B W 22 Items Includes: "Woodland Beauty," "Woodland Charms," and "Woodland Echoes." Box 1, Folder C Folio: "Woodland Sketches." 3 Items Box 1, Folder D Tree, Branches, and Twig titles, 1881-1965, undated 41 Items Includes: "Sweet Mama Tree Top Tall," "Trees," "Under the Woo-woo Box 2, Folder E Leaf and Leaves titles, 1878-1946, undated 30 Items Includes: "I'm Tying the Leaves So They Won't Come Down" and "When the Green Leaves Turn to Gold." Box 2, Folder F Magnolia Trees, 1839-1936 9 Items Includes: "Magnolias in the Moonlight" from Follow Your Heart. Box 2, Folder G Oak Trees, 1905-1956, undated 16 Items Includes: "Cinco Robles" ("Five Oaks") and "'Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle." Box 2, Folder H Pine Trees, 1894-1969, undated 26 Items Includes: "The Pine: A Slight Mistake," "Pine Tree, Pine Over Me," and "Whispering Pines" from Echoes of Broadway. Box 2, Folder I Willow Trees, 1833-1964, undated Page 3 of 28 Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 29 Items Includes: "Willow Weep for Me," "Wind in the Willow," and "The Wind in the Willows" from Charles B. Cochran's 1930 Review. Box 2, Folder J-K Specific Trees, Miscellaneous, 1852-1961, undated Note: titles are alphabetized by type of tree, not by first word. Also: see 12.2 for additional apple titles. Box 3, Folder J A - E 23 Items Includes: "When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandy," "A-round [sic] the Corner (Beneath the Berry Tree)," and "When the Cherry Blossoms Fall" from The Royal Vagabond. Box 3, Folder K H-Y 32 Items Includes: "Old Hickory March," "Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Tree," and "By the Sycamore Tree" from In London. Return to Table of Contents Subseries 12.2: Plants and Flowers, 1840-1979, undated Subseries 2, Plants and Flowers, 1840-1979, undated, includes all titles with the words: Blossom, Bouquet, Flower, Garden, and Petal. The following have their own folders: Apples, Buttercups, Clover, Daisy/Marguerite, Edelweiss, Lilacs, Lily, Pansies, Primroses, Roses, Tulips, and Violets. The five folders with miscellaneous flower/plant titles, for example, Amaranthus, Amaryllis, Arbutus, are arranged alphabetically by species and not by the first word of the title. Box 3, Folder A-E Garden titles, 1858-1979, undated Box 3, Folder A-D Songs Box 3, Folder A A - G 25 Items Includes: "At the Flower Garden Shimmy Ball," "Come into the Garden, Maud," and "The Flower Garden Ball" from When Claudia Smiles. Box 3, Folder B I 21 Items Includes: "In an Old Dutch Garden," "In the Garden of Romance" from Miss Springtime, and "In the Garden of Your Heart." Box 3, Folder C J-W 29 Items Includes: "The Little Garden in Our Back Yard" about World War II Victory Gardens, "One More Walk Around the Garden" from Carmelina, "The Palace Garden Polka," and "There Are Fairies in Our Garden." Box 4, Folder D Multiple Editions and Folio Page 4 of 28 Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 12: Plants and Animals NMAH.AC.0300.S12 19 Items Contains: "In the Garden of Tomorrow," "The Little Old Garden," and Garden Songs. Box 4, Folder E Instrumental Compositions 27 Items Includes: "Country Gardens," "In a Monastery Garden," and "In the Luxembourg Gardens." Box 4, Folder F-K Flower, Blossom, Bouquet titles, 1847-1928, undated Box 4, Folder F A - "Flower…" 36 Items Includes: "Buds and "Blossoms," "Cancel the Flowers," "Fleurs d'Amour," and "The Flower of the Field." Box 4, Folder G Contains: multiple editions of "Flower Song" by Gustave Lange. 23 Items Box 5, Folder H "Flowerland" - L