Annie Get Your Gun: Museum Object and Cultural History
Annie Get Your Gun: date made: 1946. recording artist: Merman, Ethel. maker: Decca.
The object in the museum catalogue
Original Broadway Cast. Annie Get Your Gun (Decca DL 79018). 33-1/3 rpm. Stereo re-issue.
This album is from the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, with book by Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1946
- recording artist: Merman, Ethel
- maker: Decca
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: vinyl (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 2015.0130.02
- accession number: 2015.0130
- catalog number: 2015.0130.02
- maker number: DL 79018
- Credit Line: GIft of Richard D. Rosman
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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