Sheet Music, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway: date made: 1932. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Sometimes the time required for a train trip gave a quantitative measure of distance. This song by George M. Cohan stresses that New Rochelle, New York, only forty-five minutes by train from Broadway, was an entirely different sort of place, offering a remarkable array of "jays" and "rubens." The piece comes from a Broadway musical set in New Rochelle.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1932
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23.4 cm x 30.7 cm; 1/32 in x 9 7/32 in x 12 3/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.049
- catalog number: 1988.3086.049
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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