http://www.metafilter.com/tags/1890s Posts tagged with '1890s' at MetaFilter. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:59:07 -0800 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:59:07 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73507/The%2DHistoric%2DAmerican%2DSheet%2DMusic%2Darchive The <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/">Historic American Sheet Music archive</a> at the Duke University Library has over 3000 pieces published in the United States <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/browse">available online</a>, from the <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/browse/1850-1859/">1850s</a> up to <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/browse/1910-1920/">1920</a>. Composers represented include well-known names such as <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm.b0424/pg.1/">Scott Joplin</a>, <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm.a5378/pg.1/">Irving Berlin</a>, and <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm.b0367/pg.1/">John Philip Sousa</a>. All the music is now in the public domain, and may be <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/faq.html#5">printed</a> and <a href="http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hasm/faq.html#6">performed freely</a>. <small>[Note: Language or stereotypes may occasionally be NSFW.]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73507 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:59:07 -0800 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s archive berlin collection joplin library music sheetmusic sousa Upton O'Good http://www.metafilter.com/67096/1898%2Dbaseball%2Dcursing%2Dpolicy%2Damply%2Dillustrated <a href="http://s210975194.onlinehome.us/blog/?p=41">"In terms of language, it is also the most offensive official Major League baseball document that we have ever seen."</a> An auction house obtains a one page letter sent to baseball players in 1898, outlining the league's new anti-cursing policy. Includes lots of examples of the kind of language that is not allowed. Nervous auctioneers not sure how to exhibit it. Purely of historical interest, naturally. It says at the bottom of the document "may not be mailed - must be delivered by express". I wonder if it couldn't be mailed because of its obscene content? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67096 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:17:13 -0800 1890s 1898 baseball century cursing cussing fuck language league letter nineteenth obscene offensive policy swearing LobsterMitten