Centennial Collection of National Songs: Museum Object and Cultural History
Centennial Collection of National Songs: publishing date: 1876. publisher: Oliver Ditson & Co.. Object Name: Book, Song.
The object in the museum catalogue
Centennial Collection of National Songs songbook published by Oliver Ditson and Company in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1876. This song book was made for the commemoration the one-hundredth anniversary of the convening of the Second Congress in the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, July 4, 1776, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence calling for separation from Great Britain and creation of the United States of America.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing date: 1876
- publisher: Oliver Ditson & Co.
- Object Name: Book, Song
- Object Name: song book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 in; 26.035 cm x 17.78 cm
- place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- ID Number: 1987.0438.01
- accession number: 1987.0438
- catalog number: 1987.0438.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Linda C. Burgess
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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