Day: January 20, 2016

Front facade of Houghton Library

Historical sheet music collections: The many faces of “Hawaiian Butterfly”

SHEET MUSIC 159 (O) Sheet music was often marketed by association with popular vaudeville, Broadway or movie stars. This tune from 1917, Hawaiian Butterfly, was published by Leopold Feist with at least eleven different vaudeville stars and teams pictured in the cover inset. The graphics and text are the same, as is the publisher’s plate…