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The Popular Plane: Aeroplane Sheet Music Covers, 1897-1911

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I’m posting these following sheet music covers because of their lovely airplane covers. They are located at the wonderful (and highly available and useful) Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection at Johns Hopkins University.  

Aeroplanes levy sixty

“Sixty Miles an Hour. March and Two-Step’,  Frederick W. Hager, 1910.  [Image source: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:059.065]

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