Sheet Music, Fifty Miles from Boston: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Fifty Miles from Boston: date made: 1907. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Sometimes places are identified by their numbered distance from larger communities. This is the case of Brookfield, Massachusetts, in the Broadway musical "Fifty Miles from Boston." This particular sheet music is for a song from that musical, "Harrigan." Words and music are by George M. Cohan.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1907
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 24.1 cm x 29.8 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/2 in x 11 23/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.048
- catalog number: 1988.3086.048
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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