Oh Doctor

Files

Baylor Univ Libraries_Oh Doctor.jpg

Title

Oh Doctor

Description

Musical score for voice and piano 
Illustrated title page: orange/brown/gray/white/black; drawing of men waiting in a doctor's office / R.S 

During Prohibition, the government authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal liquor.   

Complete score available from Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections.

Creator

Joyce, Billy, composer
Cowan, Rubey, lyricist

Source

Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music, Crouch Fine Arts Library, Digital Collections, Baylor University Libraries

Date

1920

Contributor

Crouch Fine Arts Library, Baylor University Libraries

Notes

Learn more:
During Prohibition, Your Doctor Could Write You a Prescription for Booze, Smithsonian.com
Medicinal Alcohol, Ohio State University
Temperance Movement, Social Welfare History Project

Citation

Joyce, Billy, composerCowan, Rubey, lyricist, “Oh Doctor,” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed March 29, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/177.