The Central Library has made a Flickr gallery of the ragtime/early-20th-century sheet music covers held in the Missouri Valley Special Collections, and boy is it a hoot!
Locally themed compositions like "The 12th Street Rag," "Kansas City Blues" and "Somewhere Along the Missouri Tonight" are displayed alongside quirkier offerings, such as "Oh, You U-Boat!" "The Tickler" and the racially specific "It Takes a Long Tall Brown-Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down."
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