Sheet Collection

Music cover, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Music cover, Spring, Spring, Spring! From the musical film, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel. circa 1950s

Amy Johnson / Music Sheet
Popular song : AMY Believe me, Amy, You cannot blame me For falling in love with you

Singing Auld Lang Syne
The song of many happy people and sentimental drunks upon New Years Eve, Auld Lang Syne, a traditional air with words by Robert Burns

A sketch of the interior of Maxims, Paris, 1907
A sketch of the interior of Maxim s, Paris, 1907 - the most cosmopolitan restaurant in the world and a Paris institution Date: 1907

Me and My Girl - Lambeth Walk sheet music cover, 1937
Bill Snibson (actor Lupino Lane 1892-1959) peeps from behind his stately home on this music cover for The Lambeth Walk, as featured in Arthur Rose and Douglas Furbers musical Me and My Girl. 1937

Sheet music, violin and pink rose
A violin and bow, with a pink rose and a sheet of music

Curling in Scotland 1869
A curling match in Scotland

Daisy Bell by Harry Dacre
Promotional music sheet for Daisy Bell music hall song of 1892 by Harry Dacre and sung by Katie Lawrence shown here in typical cycling costume

Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats - Music Sheet Cover
Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats (Mares eats Oats and Does Eat Oats) - Music Sheet Cover, words and music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingstone

Mikado / Music Sheet 2
featuring the Mikado in person

Music cover, Thats Amore, words by Jack Brooks, music by Harry Warren. Showing Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Donna Reed on a golf course in the film The Caddy. 1953

Fingerprint Sheet
Fingerprints on a fingerprint record sheet from the New Scotland Yard criminal record office. Metropolitan Police

Louise Brooks / Song Sheet
Songsheet for Je n ai qu un Amour, c est toi as sung by American film actress LOUISE BROOKS (1906-1985), in the movie Prix de Beaute [FR 1930], which turned out to be her last starring role

Mikado / Music Sheet
Three little maids from school Date: first produced 1885

Felix kept on walking - Music Sheet Cover Issued in conjunction with the Felix the cat cartoons appearing exclusively in Pathes Eve & Everybodys film review (note), words by Ede Bryant

Four ballerinas on a music sheet
Four ballerinas depicted on a music sheet, performing The Celebrated Pas de Quatre, composed by Jules Perrot, as danced at Her Majestys Theatre, London, on 12 July 1845

Gutenbergs printing press
Gutenberg inspects the first sheet of his Bible, which has just come off the press

Malvern Water Cure (8)
(8 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern. Sitz Bath and wet sheet 6o clock winters morn. " This is delightful, very!!!"

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step. Written by Montague Ewing, cover illustration by Reginald Rigby with suffragettes in the colours, one holding a hammer

1920s music sheet
Lavish illustration by H.H. Harris on a music sheet showing a red-haired flapper girl and humming bird

Fantasy Animals / Neptune
Hippocampi, beasts who were half horse, half fish, draw Neptunes chariot across the sea

Old Church Music 1500
Specimen page of church music, with notation for singing, hand written on vellum

Titanic Hymn Sheet 1912
A photograph of the ship on the cover of a French music sheet: the hymn was played by the band on deck as the ship sank

The Daily Courant
Front page of The Daily Courant, the first daily paper. The paper began in 1702 and was at first a single sheet printed on one side only. This copy three years later is printed on both sides

The Boys Of The New Home Guard
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Boys Of the New Home Guard, printed as a contibution to the Home Guard Spitfire fund

Music cover, Les Patineurs Valse, by Emile Waldteufel
Music cover, Les Patineurs Valse (Skaters Waltz), by Emile Waldteufel, with two elegant women skating on ice. circa 1880s

Music cover, On the Good Ship Lollipop, Shirley Temple
Music cover, On the Good Ship Lollipop, words and music by Sidney Clare and Richard A Whiting, as sung by Shirley Temple in the film Bright Eyes. 1934

Music cover, Animal Crackers in My Soup, Shirley Temple
Music cover, Animal Crackers in My Soup, music by Ray Henderson, words by Ted Koehler, Edward Heyman and Irving Caesar, sung by Shirley Temple in the film Curly Top. 1935

Music cover, Hello, Dolly! Louis Armstrong
Music cover, Hello, Dolly! Words and music by Jerry Herman, recorded by Louis Armstrong. 1963

Music cover, High Noon
Music cover, Gary Cooper High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin ), depicting Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in a still from the film. Words by Ned Washington, music by Dimitri Tiomkin. 1952

Music cover, When I Fall in Love, Nat King Cole
Music cover, When I Fall in Love, music by Victor Young, words by Edward Heyman, recorded by Nat King Cole on Capitol Records. 1952

Public warning, German and British aircraft, WW1
Public warning and information sheet, German and British aircraft during the First World War. 1914-1918

British Kitsch Art Deco Christmas Card, Carol Singing Chicks. Date: circa 1925

Drunk Stockbroker - confused by toilet roll
Drunk Stockbroker - confused by a toilet roll, which he takes to be the ticker tape! (which would have provided him with the latest market prices). Date: circa 1910s

Little boy with an Easter egg bursting through paper
A little boy with a decorated Easter egg under his arm bursts through a sheet of paper

The Poor Washerwoman - Henri Clark - Music Sheet
The Poor Washerwoman - sung with typhoons of applause by Henri Clark - Music Sheet, written by Walter Hadtings and composed by W. T. Webb

Winifred Atwell music sheet for Black and White Rag. Winifred Atwell (1914-1983) Trinidadian pianist and entertainer who made a big impact in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1950s

The Chickaleary Cove by Ernee Clark and W Raine
The Chickaleary Cove music hall song of circa 1864 by Ernee Clark and W Raine, sung by The Great Vance (Alfred Vance), a hugely popular music hall singer

A New Hat Now! by James Rolmaz
Promotional music sheet for A New Hat Now! by James Rolmaz, sung with the greatest possible success by J C Heffron, circa 1890

Instruction sheet, How to Dance the Jitterbug, by Adele England of the Locarno School of Dancing, Streatham, SW London. 1939

Music cover, Papa Loves Mambo, Perry Como
Music cover, Papa Loves Mambo, by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning and Bix Reichner, recorded by Perry Como, from an MGM film starring Lana Turner and Ricardo Montalban. 1954

Music cover, Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay Polka, arranged by Josef Meissler on Lottie Collins popular song. 1892

Music cover, In the Quartermasters Stores (My Eyes are Dim I Cannot See), words and music adapted by Box, Cox and Bert Read. 1940

Materialisation of Geordie, controlling spirit of Annie Fairlamb (later Mrs J B Mellon, 1850-1938). He was described as a tall Scotsman who had lived most of his life in Newcastle. Date: 19th century

Druids cut mistletoe
A druid cuts a bunch of mistletoe from the branch of a tree with a golden sickle, the mistletoe dropping into a sheet held below

Music cover, Little Spanish Villa by the Sea, recorded by Debroy Somers and his Band. Date: 1932

My Country Lane by Edgar Bateman & Albert Perry
Promotional music sheet for My Country Lane music hall song by Edgar Bateman and Albert Perry. The singer, Alec Hurley, portrayed here, specialised in coster songs

The Pickwick Quadrille by Fred Revallin
Promotional music sheet for The Pickwick Quadrille, by Fred Revallin, taken from Pickwick by James Albery which was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre on 23rd October 1871 with Henry Irving as

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