COLLECTION #148: Vintage Song Booklets

A few of these booklets have been in other collections, but I thought it would be nice to put all of my song booklets (except for holiday ones or religious ones) into one grouping. These are all soft-bound books, and most of them are from the 1930s to 1950s.

They range from a little song folder from an ice cream company (Hendler's Ice Cream) to the Amsco Music Company compilation of Cowboy Songs. Several of them are published by textbook companies, to be used in the school, one is a simple mimeographed and stapled booklet published in the 1940s by the State of California: Songs of our Latin American Neighbors.

One book is a combination of square dances and folk songs, several include guitar or autoharp chords. The cute book in the back is a nursery rhyme song book. and I've included a few vintage cowboy illustrations to make you sing 'yippee ki-yi-yay'!

COLLECTION #2: Vintage School Music Books

One of my largest collections is my huge stash of vintage school books. They range from the 1920s to the late 1960s, but most of them fall in what I consider the golden age of education- the 40s and 50s. The sweet stories and adorable illustrations warm my heart! I have over 50 school music books, and this is the collection I'm sharing with you today. (click on any of the pictures for a closer view)

One of the ways that I collect school books, is to try to complete sets of books. Generally each publisher released one book per subject per grade, from kindergarten or first grade through sixth (and occasionally eighth) grades. The books have a numbering system- anything from an obvious "Grade One" on the cover, to a cluster of stars, triangles, dots on the spine, enumerating which book in the series it is.
Since it's Independence Day, and schools were unabashedly patriotic in those years, I thought it would be fun to showcase a couple of pages in the books that have patriotic songs. Have a great July 4th!