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Sheet music for “The Brave Young Moose,” a 1912 Progressive Party campaign song. The cover features an illustration of a moose head in profile.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Small song book created for the 1904 Roosevelt presidential campaign. The songs are presented without notation and set to popular songs.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Sheet music for “Won’t You Be My Billie Possum,” a reference to the opossum representing President Taft, similar to teddy bears representing Theodore Roosevelt. The cover features a baby playing with a possum doll.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1909
Song sheet featuring patriotic and campaign songs for the Progressive Party campaign of 1912. Cover features an illustration of a moose head and the New York State seal. At the top of the page is a pencil inscription, “Papa give to me March 2, 1913.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Campaign song for the 1900 Republican nominees for president and vice-president, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Back page features an advertisement for another McKinley campaign song, “He’s All Right!”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
Sheet music for “My Bandana Rag,” a campaign song on behalf of the Progressive Party candidates for the 1912 presidential election. The cover features a red and white bandana background with black and white photographs of the Progressive Party ticket, Theodore Roosevelt, and Governor Johnson.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Obverse has the words for an anti-President Roosevelt and pro-Alton B. Parker campaign song to be sung to the tune of “Good bye, My Lover, Good Bye.” Reverse is the words for “America.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Republican Campaign Songs features twenty-one pieces by J. A. Parks in support of President Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential campaign. An announcement on the inside front cover explains that the songs were printed before the Democratic National Convention in order to meet “early demand.” As such, the songs were arranged to allow for any two-syllable name of a Democratic candidate, national or local, to be used in the appropriate places, marked by asterisks in the lyrics.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Republican Party campaign songbook with several titles including “Marching to the Bugle Call,” McKinley, the Watchword,” and “The Republican Train.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
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Pocket song card for the chorus of the official Roosevelt booster song, “Teddy, you’re a bear.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1916
Song sheet featuring patriotic songs and campaign songs for Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, Governor Johnson, during the Progressive Party campaign of 1912. Songs include “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and an adaptation of “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The Jane Addams Chorus was “first organized and named in Los Angeles, August 26th, 1912.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Song sheet featuring patriotic and campaign songs for Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, Governor Johnson, for the Progressive Party campaign of 1912. Cover page features photos of Roosevelt, Johnson, and the Progressive Party candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Charles Bird Sumner and Daniel Cosgrove.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Sheet music for “Mack and Teddy,” a 1900 presidential campaign song supporting President McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The front cover shows photographs of McKinley and Roosevelt with an American flag.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
Sheet music for “Inaugural Ball Two Step,” a piece celebrating the inauguration of President McKinley after his victory in the presidential election of 1900. The cover features a blue and red colored print of McKinley and Vice President Roosevelt beneath a draped American flag and a bald eagle and in front of a dance floor full of dancers. The back cover features other popular pieces of sheet music for piano from Jay V. Youmans.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
Sheet music for “Just For Your Country’s Sake,” a campaign song in support of the 1904 Roosevelt-Fairbanks Republican presidential ticket. Cover features photographs of President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks surrounded by a an eagle and two fasces.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Sheet music for “Teddy is the man,” a 1904 presidential campaign song. The cover features oval photographs of the Republican presidential ticket, President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Pamphlet of campaign songs supporting the 1900 Republican presidential ticket of President McKinley and Governor Roosevelt. The songs are presented without notation and set to popular tunes. The cover is a simple black and white design with oval portraits of McKinley and Roosevelt.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
Collection of campaign songs for the 1900 McKinley-Roosevelt presidential ticket. The book contains twenty-one songs which are patriotic and campaign oriented. Theodore Roosevelt is referenced in “The Major and the Rough Rider” and “Roosevelt Marching Song.”
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1900
Sheet music for “Teddy,” a souvenir from the 1912 Republican convention. The cover features a drawing of Theodore Roosevelt and the back cover has a cartoon of Roosevelt and William H. Taft in a ring with a number of hats representing state primaries on the mat. There is also a facsimile letter from Roosevelt to the composer, Minnie M. Seymour, complimenting her verses.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Booklet with short essays about the Progressive platform and music/lyrics for many songs associated with the Progressive movement.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912