6.95.91

Music, Sheet

1914

Song Sheet: A Mother Singing Babes to Sleep at Night. Material: paper. Size: 10 3/4" W. x 13 7/8" L. Description: white paper with black printing: "A Mother Singing Babes to Sleep at Night", written for piano and voice; 6 pages with blue and red front cover graphics; handwritten on front cover: "Graham".

Composed by D.E. Perrin and published by Brisbane & Perrin, Waseca. D.E. Perrin came to Waseca around 1900. He directed the Little Dutch Band, organized a town band in 1914 and an orchestra in 1917. He married Emma Bierman, daughter of Heinrich Bierman, a territorial pioneer who settled in the Wilton area. Art Brisbane and D.E. Perrin operated the Brisbane & Perrin Music Store. They sold pianos, banjos, Edison phonographs and sheet music. In 1924, they added radios, gramaphones, ukuleles and accordians. They sold the store in 1954 to Joe & Ruth Kozan. See accession 1.97.120

A Mother Singing Babes To Sleep At Night

D.E. Perrin

Brisbane & Perrin