Sheet Music, I've Got Your Number: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, I've Got Your Number: date made: 1910. maker: Bryan, Alfred. maker: Meyer, George W..
The object in the museum catalogue
As this song suggests, numbers can refer both to street addresses and to telephone numbers. In this song, an eager young man seeks to learn both of a young woman. She eventually replies that her number is "two." The words to the song are by Alfred Bryan, with music by George W. Meyer.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1910
- maker: Bryan, Alfred
- maker: Meyer, George W.
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 27 cm x 34.1 cm; 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 13 7/16 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.090
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- catalog number: 1988.3086.090
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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