“Tin Pan Alley” is a term used to describe the popular sheet music business based primarily in New York City from 1880 to1950. The last 45 years of the Golden Age of Illustration, 1850-1925, coincide with the rise of the sheet music industry. Knowing how to identify these illustrators and including that information in records pertaining to digital collections can assist in providing access to these materials for researchers working outside of the field of music.
