Sheet Music for "At an Ole Virginia Wedding": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A piece of sheet music entitled "At an Ole Virginia Wedding" across the top in large red text. The object is four pages long and on the cover page people are depicted dancing around two individuals, one being a woman in a wedding dress and another being a man in a suit, as they walk down the aisle. The last three pages of the object are all sheets of music.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1900
• Published by: T.B. Harms & Francis, Day, & Hunter, Inc., American, 1875 - 1929
• Composed by: Maurice J. Steinberg, American
• Type: sheet music
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 13 1/4 × 10 3/16 in. (33.7 × 25.9 cm)
• Place used: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Stereotypes
• Object number: 2013.118.284.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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