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Scope and Content Note
The Boots Family Papers of Vincent Youmans span from 1924 to 1975, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1927 to 1959. The Music series primarily contains printed piano-vocal scores for songs by Vincent Youmans. There are also lead sheets, lyric sheets, a manuscript piano-vocal score, and an unpublished copyright deposit for It's the Goods!, a musical comedy by Frank Loesser, Frank Provo, John Pickard, and David Mann. The Miscellany series consists of clippings about Youmans' marriage to Mildred Boots and his death, a list of his compositions, a periodical containining an article about him, several photographs of Youmans, and a memoir written by Boots.