Sheet Music, Around the World in 80 Days: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Around the World in 80 Days: date made: 1956. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
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Measuring time has long been associated with travel. In this song, which has music by Victor Young and lyrics by Harold Adamson, the singer proclaims it unnecessary to rush around the world in eighty days "for I have found my world in you."
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1956
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 30.5 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 12 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.044
- catalog number: 1988.3086.044
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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