“If You Forget”: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This sheet music for the song “If You Forget” was written by F. E. Weatherly and composed by Clara Schleiffarth. The music was originally published by Sol Bloom of Chicago, Illinois in 1899, and appeared as a musical supplement of the “New York Journal and Advertiser” on August 18, 1901. The cover features an illustration of a woman in a fancy dress walking along a shore with green hills in the background. The cover notes that the sung was “sung by Baroness Marie Von-Ziener,” who is pictured in an inset photograph on the lower left of the cover.

Materials, dates and provenance

• publishing date: 1899
• performer: Von Zieber, Baroness Marie
• composer: Schleiffarth, Clara
• lyricist: Weatherly, F. E.
• publisher: Sol Bloom
• Object Name: sheet music
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 13 in x 10 3/4 in; 33.02 cm x 27.305 cm
• place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
• ID Number: 1982.0440.33
• accession number: 1982.0440
• catalog number: 1982.0440.33
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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