Sheet Music, Fifth Avenue Bus: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Fifth Avenue Bus: date made: 1946. maker: Bloom, Rube. Object Name: sheet music.
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American towns and cities have long had numbered streets and avenues - and sometimes described the public transit on them with the name of the boulevard, as in this composition about a Fifth Avenue buse. The piano solo is by Rube Bloom.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1946
- maker: Bloom, Rube
- Object Name: 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
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.114
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- catalog number: 1988.3086.114
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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