Kelsey City, U.S.A. : waltz song / by Jeff Morgan.
| Author/creator | Morgan, Jeff composer, lyricist. |
| Other author | Kelsey, Harry S., dedicatee. |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication | West Palm Beach, Florida : Kelsey City Sales Office, East Coast Finance Corporation, ©1924. |
| Description | 1 score (5 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 31 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | First line of text: "Uncle Sam's" got a little "tot" |
| Variant title | First line of chorus: City Florida! da! |
| Series | Sheet Music Collection (Popular 1900-1929) Sheet Music Collection (Popular 1900-1929) UNAUTHORIZED |
| Abstract | "Rare sheet-music advertising a 1920s development in present-day Kelsey Park, Florida... Boston entrepreneur Harry Kelsey (1879-1957) plunged into the Florida land boom when he purchased some 30,000 acres north of West Palm Beach in 1919. In time he came to own over 100,000 acres--more land than anyone else in Palm Beach County. Kelsey planned agricultural industries for the area and hired the Massachusetts landscape architects, the Olmsted Brothers, as well as John Nolan of Boston, to design the development. Believed to be Florida's first zoned community, Kelsey designed the city for working people, not retirees or the wealthy. At the time the first lots were offered at auction, Kelsey had invested some million dollars in the city." https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/5619/jeff-morgan-composer/kelsey-city-u-s-a-waltz-song |
| General note | Song for voice and piano. |
| General note | Copyright by William M. Hansen. |
| General note | "Dedicated to Harry S. Kelsey, founder and owner of Kelsey City"--Caption. |
| General note | "Gateway to the world's winter play ground." |
| General note | "East Coast Finance Corporation ... Harry S. Kelsey, president; William M. Hansen, sales manager." |
| General note | Illustrated title page: blue/peach/white; swaying palm trees near an arch with the text, "Welcome to Kelsey City" under which a road leads to homes by the sea, sailboat and steamship in the distant ocean, and in the foreground, Uncle Sam and a young girl with a Kelsey City sash hold hands; inset image of a beach scene with people lounging or playing in the ocean. |
| General note | Page 2 blank. Full-page publicity story about Kelsey City on unnumbered page. |
| General note | Key: G major. |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Item being cataloged | MQM M.565 K.35 | Item being cataloged | Want This? |