Details
Creator Drayton, Frank, composer.
Contributor French, Mary, Miss. dedicatee
Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1832, printer.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
Title Wissahickon polka. / By Frank Drayton.
Publisher Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date c1858
Physical Description 4 p.: ill. ; 36 cm.
Is referenced by Lane & Cresswell, Prints of Philadelphia 191
Notes Composed by Frank Drayton.
Printer: Lithograph by T. Sinclair, Philada.
Prices printed on recto: Solo 2 1/2; Duett 2.
Cover illustration is a lithograph, tinted with one stone showing a domestic scene with a cottage residence in Fairmount Park, set back from the bank of the creek. The father pulls a small fishing boat up to shore as his son runs to greet him. The boy leaves behind his mother who sits with his infant sibling in her lap under a tree.
Polka.
Dedication: To Miss Mary French.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 851
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1990, p. 47.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edits.
Subject Families -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists. SP10
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Genre prints -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music -- 1850-1860.
Printer Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1832, printer.
Printer Lee & Walker, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| *Sheet Music Wissahickon P.9303.4
Accession number P.9303.4