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Oakes and Swan, Pub. – Boston

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Oakes & Swan were sheet music engravers and publishers, with a shop located on Tremont Row in Boston, Massachusetts. This was only a brief partnership (c.1840) of William H. Oakes and Samuel Swan. Oakes, however, went on to publish sheet music under his own name from 1840 to 1851.

– Catharina Slautterback

Related tables: Boston – Oakes Music Store »

publication
1841 Boston Weekly Magazine 2.13.1841
2.13.1841
Newspaper
Boston Weekly Magazine Devoted to Moral and Entertaining Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
"Deception"
v.iii, n.22
p. 175

"Now Boston people do surpass other cities in the execution of almost every species of artizanship [sic] connected with the press; and to none should a higher palm be awarded than to Wm. H. OAKES, music engraver and publisher, Tremont Row, for the beautiful style of his issues. His vignette titles are far superior to anything across the water, and are better specimens of art than half the engravings for sale at the print shops. Who has not seen and admired his "Old Arm Chair," with the music by Russell? and it is of this we would speak; for we have been shown another Old Arm Chair . . . which is an exact copy of Mr. Oakes's . . ."

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