SAM DeVINCENT COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC, ca. 1790 - 1987
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Container List

Series 7: SPORTS, 1834-1983

by: Robert S Harding and Yaraslav Senyk, 1997

Subseries 7.3: Fishing, 1847-1962

Box 4

    Folder

    A-B -- General Songs, 1847-1962; n. d.

    A -- 1847-1889; n.d.

    Contains: "The Angler's Polka," "The Beacon Light," "Ballad of
    the Oysterman," "The Breeze from the Shore Is Blowing,"
    "Bring Back My Fisher Boy," "Come This Way My Father,"
    "The Fisherman and His Child," "The Fisherman's Daughter
    That Lives O'er the Water," "The Fisherman's Song," "I
    Pescatori. The Fishermen," "The Return of the Fisherman,"
    "Row the Boat Lightly," "Three Fishermen Went Sailing," and
    "The Three Fishers." (15 items)

    B -- 1902-1904, 1920, 1932, 1945-1962

    Contains: "The Catfish Song," "Catfish, Take a Look at that
    Worm," "The Compleat Angler," "Down at the Old Swimming
    Hole," "Fishing," "Fishin' for the Moon," "Fishing Time,"
    "Gone Fishin'," "We're Gonna Fishin'," and "Where's Oscar ?"
    (15 items)

    C-E -- Songs Regarding Fishing In Childhood, 1897-1949

    C -- 1897-1949

    Contains: "Beside a Babbling Brook," "Bring Back Those
    Bygone Days to Me," "Comrades," "Curley," "The Fishing
    Song," "Happy," "Just to Play Hookey Again," "In Old
    Missouri," "The Kid with the Rip in His Pants," "Loafin' Time,"
    "Patches," "Regular Fellows," "Sunny Jim," "Unforgotten,"
    "When I Was a Boy," "Where the Four-Leaf Clovers Grow,"
    "Whistle the Blues Away," and "Wishin' and Fishin'."
    (19 items)

    D -- 1918

    Contains multiple editions of "Huckleberry Finn." (8 items)

    E -- Songs Regarding Fishing and Girls, 1906-1922

    Contains: "Let's Go Fishing, My Dear," "The Poor Little Rich Girl," 
    "She Goes out A-Fishing," and "Somebody's Waiting for You." 
    (7 items)

    F -- Music for Children, 1910, 1953

    Contains simple melodies for teaching; titles have fishing
    themes. (3 items)

    G -- Instrumental Compositions, 1874-1911

    Contains: "Fisherman's Return," "The Inquisitor," "Light Heart
    Polka," "Norwegian Fisher's Song," and "Piscatorial Pleasures."
    (5 items)

    H -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1906-1913

    "Fishing," 1912, UNDER MANY FLAGS
    "Fishing for the Moon," 1907, THE GREEN BIRD
    "Fishing Yarns," 1913, THE BEAUTY SHOP
    "The Little Fishermaiden (Das Klein Fischermadchen)" 
    by L. Waldmann, 1888, 1889; n.d., INCOGNITO
    "Little Willie Brown," 1906, THE LITTLE CHERUB
    (11 items)

    I -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1936-1953; n.d.

    Contains: "Catfish on the Griddle," "Deep Blue Sea," "Dora,
    The Clam Digger's Daughter," "Down Where the River Meets
    the Sea," "Fish -Tail Boogie," "Fisherman Jo," "Fishin'," "Gone
    Fishin'," and "I Wanna Go Fishin'." (9 items)

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