Paul Dresser
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Paul Dresser was an American singer, songwriter, and comedic actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dresser performed in traveling minstrel and medicine-wagon shows and as a vaude
Paul Dresser as he appeared on the 1897 back cover of the sheet music for "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"
Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute, Indiana
Dresser's younger brother, the famous novelist Theodore Dreiser
The disputed sheet music cover of "The Letter That Never Came"
Paul Dresser Birthplace
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The Paul Dresser Birthplace is located in Fairbanks Park in Terre Haute, Indiana, at the corner of First and Farrington Streets. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is the birthplac
Paul Dresser
…newspapers compared Dresser to popular composer Stephen Foster. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" became the official song of Indiana in 1913. The Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute is designated as a state shrine and memorial. Dresser was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Dresser grew up in a large…
Front and side view of home
Front view of home
River side of home