Sheet Music, Not Here - Not There - It's Fifty Miles from Nowhere: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Not Here - Not There - It's Fifty Miles from Nowhere: date made: 1923. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Many Americans describe their location in terms of numerical distances. This sheet music contains music by Ernes Breuer with lyrics by Mort Dixon. The song describes someone looking at locations on a map and finding that their home was "fifty miles from nowhere."
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1923
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23.5 cm x 30.9 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 12 5/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.041
- catalog number: 1988.3086.041
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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