Sheet music for FDR's inauguration composed by

[mmonk]

William Woodin with words by Irving Caesar and a letter by FDR to the composer, an inauguration pin for FDR's first term, and a copy of the News & Observer announcing the death of FDR are a few things I picked up in an antique store in West Jefferson, North Carolina today. I don't know why except for historical value and my feeling that he bent government in the favor of people under similar circumstances to today (without the globalization and high tech trading inventions). Thought I would share.

[grasswire]

1. well well, a very interesting find!

I've been collecting and selling sheet music for a lot of years, and I've never seen that piece. Congratulations!

[mmonk]

2. Thanks much. Thought I would later this evening do a little research

or follow up on it.

[mmonk]

11. Here it is. Found a performance on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjOTR2k1bps

[mdmc]

3. r

[charlie and algernon]

4. That's very cool

How much did you end up paying for that, if you don't mind me asking?

[mmonk]

12. We bought quite a few pieces today. I'll have to go back and break

it down. I haggled pretty well. It wasn't bad though. Plus buying the other items together, it allowed me to get a lot of it cheaper. I need to get the newspaper though to someone that can help me preserve that.

[RainDog]

13. newsprint is very acidic - you want to halt any further oxidation

the thing to do is put it in an acid-free archival bag with a backing (like you see for comics in comic book stores.) people who make supplies for archives make large magazine size bags and acid-free cardboard inserts, too.

the other option, if you don't have a bag large enough, and the way special collection libraries preserve large items such as maps, etc. is to get/cut two large sheets of acid free archival plastic that are about three inches wider than the paper, all around (unfold the paper so that it doesn't age on the crease.)

use double-sided tape to seal off three sides of the plastic, insert the paper, and carefully seal the final side of the bag you created.

see, being an archivist is good for something!

it is really expensive to deacidify paper - that's generally done in large institutions and not worth the expense for an individual unless they are big time collectors

[mmonk]

14. Thanks.

I have sleeves for things such as my baseball card collection but not for newsprint. Thanks for the information.

[Zoigal]

5. Congratulations mmonk, for your great finds. I have collected

political memorabilia for quite a few years and never
found anything as interesting as that. As a side, i remember
a lot about FDR, when he was elected for his fourth term as well as his death.
My grandfather used to listen to his "fireside chats" on the radio, too.
(Yes, i'm that old).:)...........z

[mmonk]

9. Thanks.

Funny, I saw some antique radios as well today and the thoughts of families sitting by them listening entered my mind.

[RainDog]

6. it's interesting to see the artifacts of history as they were

rather than reprints in a textbook - and some things we never see again at all because too few people thought they were worth saving.

I have bound copies of the New York Times during the 1940s. It's fascinating to see the advertisements on the pages, what stories were published together, how events were reported, rather than retold in history books.

I also have a few political buttons from various campaigns throughout history.

oh, and a few other things that Jess and I plan to put in the DUmarketplace... :)

[RainDog]

7. Was it the Roosevelt NRA March? n/t

[mmonk]

10. I found it on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjOTR2k1bps

[aikoaiko]

8. I wish there were a word for that...

...when you try to help someone but they shut you down before you can even explain why they should listen to you and with a smirk you decide to just let them find the problem for themselves.

One would think the Germans have a word for this.