"If I Had a Million Dollars": Museum Object and Cultural History
"If I Had a Million Dollars": publishing sate: 1953. Object Name: sheet music. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This sheet music is for the song “If I Had a Million Dollars.” The lyrics were written by Pearl Thompson and the music was composed by Pearl Thompson and Al Kostin, and the sheet music was published by Thompson Publishing Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1953. The cream colored cover features a central image of two men and two women labeled, “The Meadowlarks.” The sheet music was sold for forty cents.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing sate: 1953
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- ID Number: 1982.0745.05
- accession number: 1982.0745
- catalog number: 1982.0745.05
- Credit Line: Gift of Virginia B. Spicer
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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