<p>The music for "City Life," a march and two-step, was composed by George A. Edmunds and arranged by musician Sol Levi (1881-). The sheet music was printed by Liberal Music Printing Co. in Seattle, and sold at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Brothers" class="extiw" title="w:Rhodes Brothers">Rhodes Bros.</a> in Seattle. Considering the date of publication, the song was likely one of many written for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (or A.Y.P.E." a  world's fair held in 1909 on the campus of Seattle's University of Washington to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. 
George Andrew Edmunds (1870-) was a music salesman born in New Hampshire. By 1894 he had moved to Seattle where he married Jennie M. (Houghton) Edmunds (1872-1910), a well-known soprano born in Washington. </p>
<p>Caption information source: "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909): Music at the Fair" Peter Blecha, historylink.org Essay 8876.
Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, May 30, 1906, p. 10.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.); Sheet music covers; Songs &amp; music</li></ul><hr>
The picture looks north on Second Avenue, roughly from University Street.
Edmunds, George A. and
Levi, Sol
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