Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus"

Entry/Object ID

2013.449.1.1

Description

Sheet music, "Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus," by Byron Gay and Charley Brown, published by W. A. Quincke and Company, Los Angeles, 1915. The front has a comic cartoon of several men hanging from a car driven by a man with a young lady at the wheel. A photo of singer Ray Samuels, labeled "The Blue Streak of Ragtime" is also present. The three-page score is followed, on the back, by an ad for several other tunes by the publisher. With many creases, abrasions, small edge tears, soiling, and rubbing, the overall condition is fair.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Music, Sheet

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Composition, Musical

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Cattle--Marking--Los Angeles County (Calif.), Cattle brands--Los Angeles County (Calif.)