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<dl><dd>For men's chorus and piano</dd>
<dd>Illustrated t.p. has a background of a world map with a border of various images and inset scenes. At the top of the page are a carrier pigeon, a hot air balloon and two women holding hands, one holding up a bugle and the other holding a telegraph pole. There are inset scenes of a carriage with a driver and horses, a man on horseback with a bugle, a man walking down a trail with a backpack and a dog, a post horn, a railroad car, a man riding a camel and smoking a pipe, a man working a switchboard, and a steamship with sails. Lithograph signed: E. Zorn</dd>
<dd>Poem by D. Gross on p. 2</dd>
<dd>Full lyrics printed on p. 3</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Choruses (Men's voices, 4 parts) with piano; Popular music; Humorous songs; Postal service; Railroad mail service; Women; Horses; Messengers; Letter carriers; Homing pigeons; Balloons (Aircraft); Bugles; Post horns; Railroad cars; Camels; Mail wagons; Mail steamers; Smoking; Telegraph lines; Telegraph poles; Switchboards</div>
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<dl><dd>Gross, D. cmp</dd>
<dd>Schmitt, C. A. lyr</dd>
<dd>Stephan, Heinrich von, 1831-1897. dte</dd>
<dd>Zorn, E. ill</dd>
<dd>Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI</dd></dl></div>
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