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EXPLORE The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Take a whistle-stop tour through American music history with this collection of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music, spanning 1780 to 1980.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Joe Louis looks for an opening during a boxing match with Max Schmeling, 1936
The Fight
Superman, 1941
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
The Jazz Loft Project
Jazz Loft Project
black and white photo of woman holding matzah ball soup, 1954
Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Jewish Identity
American Icons: Monticello
American Icons: Monticello
Appalachian Spring - dancer silhouette on yellow background
American Icons: Appalachian Spring
photograph: Black Sunday dust storm approaching Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935
The Dust Bowl
Dorothea Lange, "The Migrant Mother"
Photogrammar Project