This sheet music is for the song, “In the Evening By the Moonlight (Dear Louise),” with words by Andrew B. Sterlin and music by Harry Von Tilzer. It was published by Harry Von Tilzer Publishing Co. in New York, New York. There are separate inset images of Harry Von Tilzer and Edward E. Boyd on the cover.
The cover art for this sheet music was made by American artist Charles Arthur Etherington (1880-1960). He was most likely trained by his father, Charles Allison Etherington, in the family’s art and engraving shop. Arthur Charles began creating sheet music cover art around 1906 and was active through the early 1910s, subsequently focusing on other areas including advertising art, book illustration, and magazine art.
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