Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Where the old Potomac flows

Alternative Title
  • Where the old Potomac flows.
Composer
Lyricist
Print Maker
Issued
  • 1914
Description
  • Yellow symbol on bottom right of front cover (possible illustrator's mark?)
  • inside front cover contains advertisement for 'Your mother wants you home, boy' by Paul Dresser
  • back cover has advertisement for more songs from publisher
  • plate number Where the old Potomac flows. =3
  • vocal range is C4-E5
Cover Description
  • Illustrated image of river shore at night
  • title in yellow letters above illustration
  • photographic inset in an oval with text 'Frank Mullane'
First Line
  • Down in the land of corn and cotton
First Line Chorus
  • Down by the old Potomac,
Instrumentation
  • Song for voice and piano
Subject
Work Type
Physical Extent
  • 6 p; color; 35 cm.
Copyright Claimant
  • Howley-Dresser Co
Identifier
  • where_the_old_potomac_flows_9472
Shelf Location
  • 009472
Copy Location
  • University of Oregon Knight Library, Music Services Section
Publisher
Publication Place
Exhibit
  • Women Composers
Institution
Submission Date
  • 07/18/2017
Modified
  • 10/20/2023
Collections

APA

Historic Sheet Music Collection, University of Oregon. (09 May 2024). Where the old Potomac flows Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71jb96t

MLA

Historic Sheet Music Collection, University of Oregon. "Where the old Potomac flows" Oregon Digital. 09 May 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71jb96t

Chicago

Historic Sheet Music Collection, University of Oregon. "Where the old Potomac flows" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-05-09. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71jb96t

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71jb96t | title= Where the old Potomac flows |author= |accessdate= 2024-05-09 |publisher= Howley-Dresser Company}}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Chapman, Lylian M. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013058077
2 McDonald, Thomas C. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/McDonaldThomasC
3 Robert Teller Sons & Dorner http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00078415
4 Popular music--United States--1911-1920 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108979
5 Songs with piano http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125211
6 Music by women composers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005362
7 lithographs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300041379
8 sheet music http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026430
9 Howley-Dresser Company http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/HowleyDresserCo
10 New York >> New York >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5128581/
11 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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