White, Smith & Company

White, Smith & Company was a music publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts.

It issued sheet music and published industry journals, notably the monthly Folio.

The company continued to prosper, in 1882 publishing White's most successful composition, "Marguerite", which would sell over a million copies through the following two decades.

[c] By 1890, White, Smith had expanded to nine branch offices and become one of the largest music publishing firms in the country.

"[2] The company's journal, The Folio, was first published in September 1869 at an annual subscription price of $1.

Charles A. White depicted in 1881 in Folio .
Cover of The Folio in 1881.