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The Early Airplane in Popular Culture: Sheet Music (1897-1911)

JF Ptak Science Books  Post 2780

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.  

Aircraft sheet music collage

Aeroplane floating along

“I Could Live in An Airplane”, by James O’Dea, with music by Edward Buffington, 1909. [Image source: http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:060.048]

 

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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