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City guards quick step

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1835

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

GUSN

GUSN-191977

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Description

Cover depicts a military exercise on Boston Common with the Great Elm in the distance.

Details

Descriptive Terms

soldiers
sword bayonets
sheet music
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Sheet music project number SMHNE439

Physical Description

1 print : lithograph

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.10.TMP.018

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Walch, J. H. (Johann Heinrich), 1775 or 6-1855 (Composer)
Brown, George Loring, 1814-1889 (Artist)
Zeuner, Charles, 1795-1857 (Arranger)
Pendleton’s Lithography (Lithographer)
Oliver Ditson & Co. (Publisher)

Material Type

sheet music
prints (visual works)

Other Organizations

Boston Brigade Band

Subjects

Great Elm (Boston, Mass.)

Accruals Note

Included in the Sheet Music Images Database.
Military ; Urban scenes
Arranged for the piano forte with flute accompaniment, and also for two flutes by Charles Zeuner. Dedicated to the City Guards by the Boston Brigade Band.

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

Boston, Mass.

Publisher

Oliver Ditson & Co.

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

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