Exhibitions

America Set to Music

July 1, 1976 – September 7, 1976

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor

See on Map Floor Plan

View about 30 pieces of 19th century sheet music, displayed with appropriate artifacts. Subject matter ranges from sports and games, fashion, politics, inventions, and disasters. The sheet music is on loan from the private collection of Lester S. Levy of Pikesville, MD, while the artifacts, including early music machines, are from Smithsonian collections.