"When You Wish Upon a Star": Museum Object and Cultural History
"When You Wish Upon a Star": publishing date: 1939. publisher: Irving Berlin, Inc.. Object Name: sheet music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Ned Washington and Leigh Harline wrote the optimistic “When You Wish Upon A Star” for the animated film Pinocchio. The Academy Award winning song would go on to become the signature theme of the Walt Disney Company. This sheet music was published by Irving Berlin, Inc. in New York, New York in 1939, a year prior to the film’s opening.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing date: 1939
- publisher: Irving Berlin, Inc.
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall pattern)
- Physical Description: ink (overall pattern)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 1988.0759.03
- accession number: 1988.0759
- catalog number: 1988.0759.03
- Credit Line: Gift of Edwin K. Robinson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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