October 5, 2001

A University Library Creates a Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley

Brock Read

By BROCK READ

In one image, a beaming Irving Berlin sits at his piano. Above, an arc of words proclaims: "He's a Rag Picker." In another, a couple dressed in Roaring Twenties garb dance the "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble." These are but two images in an online archive of works from the Templeton Sheet Music Collection. Exploring the unusual archive is a virtual walk through Tin Pan Alley, by way of Mississippi State University

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