Sheet Music, It Took Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen Years to Make a Girl Like You: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, It Took Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen Years to Make a Girl Like You: date made: 1919. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
The practice of counting the passage years from (roughly) the birth of Christ was introduced in Europe in the sixth century and was generally used thereby the time of the settlement of European colonies in America. The title of this sheet music from 1919 reflects the convention. Words are by Frank Tannenhill and music by Ted Snyder.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1919
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23.5 cm x 31 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 12 7/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.039
- catalog number: 1988.3086.039
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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