100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites: Museum Object and Cultural History
100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites: publishing date: 1935. publisher: M. M. Cole Publishing Co.. Object Name: song book.
The object in the museum catalogue
This song book 100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites, was published by M. M. Cole Publishing Co. in Chicago, Illinois in 1935. It contains 100 songs featured on National Barn Dance programs on WLS radio in Chicago, Illinois. WLS or “World’s Largest Store” radio was founded by Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1924. National Barn Dance continued it’s programming through the late 1960s.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing date: 1935
- publisher: M. M. Cole Publishing Co.
- Object Name: song book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 11 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 29.845 cm x 22.225 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- general subject association: Country (music)
- ID Number: 2013.0232.01
- accession number: 2013.0232
- catalog number: 2013.0232.01
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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