(RAILROADS) Meineke Christopher; composer Rail Road March fo

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(RAILROADS.) Meineke, Christopher; composer. Rail Road March for the Fourth of July. Illustrated sheet music, [3] pages. Folio, 13 x 10 inches, disbound, rebacked with archival tape; minor foxing, minor dampstaining, musician's notes in pencil. Baltimore, MD: George Willig Jr., 1828

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Second edition. The Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road was the first common carrier railroad in the United States. The piece was composed for the ground-breaking which took place on 4 July 1828, with the cornerstone laid by elderly Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll. This sheet music features one of the earliest illustrations of an American railroad, with an engineer and fireman driving three coal cars down a track, and patriotic emblems overhead. Dichter & Shapiro, Early American Sheet Music page 71; Thomson, Check List of Publications on American Railroads 228.