Sheet Music of PPIE

When I learned about google searching using site:edu from a librarian at Santa Cruz, different results popped up for me. I ended up one day at the Fresno State website in the midst of a huge PPIE collection. As I paged through their collection, I came across some sheet music for PPIE.  And then some more. And more. They provided a summary of all the "Sheet music in the Larson Collection". This collection has sheet music for various world fairs. So search for Panama to find PPIE.




Here are links to the sheet music, covers and music, in their archives:

• The song, The Great Jitney Song, must have been piggybacking off the popularity of Charlie Chaplin's movie, A Jitney Elopment, that was filmed in 1915 in San Francisco. Watch the movie here.
• Hello Frisco! I Called You Up TO Say "Hello!"  Listen to it here. The song is referring to the opening of the transcontinental lines. January 25, 1915 was the date when the official call was made at PPIE. Here's an account from the East coast side.
• In 'Frisco for the Fair
• In San Francisco the Fair Will be Best
• Frisco in Fifteen
• Hino
• Frisco You're a Bear
• The Zone or On the Exposition Zone
• Meet me on the Joy Zone
• At the Panama-Pacific Fair
• Pack Your Duds (For San Francisco)
• 1915 Rag
• Panama Pacific Drag. Listen to it here as a "Cembalom solo (Also Called 'Cembalo', 'Cymbal', and 'Dulcimer')".
• At the Panama Pacific Fair
• At the 1915 fair
• San Francisco march song
• Panama fair waltzes
• Exposition march
• San Francisco - Panama - 1915 march
• Shoot me back to california land
• We’d love a girl like Johnny’s
• Fair exposition land
• Celebrating three hundred thousand strong
• When the East shall greet the West by the way of Panama
• Romanoff caviar
• San-Fran-Pan American

Miscellany:

• Listen to Those Charlie Chaplin Feet, Victor Military Band 
• Listen to They All Do the Charlie Chaplin Walk
• That Charlie Chaplin Walk, published in 1915, but not related to PPIE as far as I can tell.
• There was a really good video that I ran into from Smithsonian on fair music and how we are still hearing songs that were played at these fairs. (It seems that the cartoons picked a lot of them up!) Is this it?
• Ukulele at PPIE100
• Ukulele music became really popular during PPIE.   "On the Beach at Waikiki" was one of the songs that visiters heard. When I listened to it, I remembered it from a Disney cartoon, Hawaiian Holiday. This article, "100 years of Hawaiian Music" has a picture of the Hawaiian pavilion at PPIE.  Here's a CD that has some of the songs of 1914-1929 from Edison recordings. 
• Marimba "Stars and Stripes" by the Royal Marimba Band. Sousa was at the fair and so were marimba musicians from Guatamala. Some cross pollination and, Voila!, you have a classic combination. What did Sousa say? It's still being played as seen at this Ball State University recording. American memory has the recording. Read about the Royal Marimba Band in the Pacific Coast Musical Review, June 19, 1915. 
• Stanford musicologist probes soundscapes of world's fairs
• Speaking of music, here's an interesting article about the PPIE organ.
• Also interesting is the SF symphony's notes on Barbary Coast and Beyond: Music from the Gold Rush to the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
• Another list for comparison

Using site:edu limts your search to .edu. I also just found google's advanced search page. And these tips and tricks. Says you can use your phone camera to start a search!!! And then there is Google scholar.