Image: 1856 Wheelbarrow Polka 4360129008
Description: Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University Title: The Wheelbarrow Polka (Boston: Ditson, 1856) "Major Ben. Perley Poore of Newbury made a bet with Col. Robert I. Burbank of Boston on the presidential vote in Massachusetts. The bet doomed the loser to wheel a barrel of apples from his house to the house of the winner. The Colonel won the bet, and the Major started the next morning from Newbury (36 miles from Boston) with the apples ... and arrived at the Tremont House the third day at 2-1/2 o'clock -- where in the presence of at least 30,000 enthusiastic spectators the most interesting ceremonies took place between the parties." J.H. Bufford's Lith. Election Year: 1856 Date Made: 1856 Measurement: Sheet Music: 14 x 10 1/2 in.; 35.56 x 26.67 cm Classification: Publications Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zvs There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
Title: 1856 Wheelbarrow Polka 4360129008
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