Sheet Music, At the Five and Ten Cent Store: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, At the Five and Ten Cent Store: date made: 1915. maker: Lee, Marvin. maker: Watz, Jean.
The object in the museum catalogue
A few stores have been named for the price of the goods they carry, as the "Five and Ten Cent Store" shown on the cover of this sheet music. The song refers to a young man who buys objects from - and eventually woos and marries - a clerk at a Five and Ten Cent Store. The words are by Marvin Lee with music by Jean Walz.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1915
- maker: Lee, Marvin
- maker: Watz, Jean
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 26.4 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 10 13/32 in x 13 25/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.092
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- catalog number: 1988.3086.092
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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