Sheet Music, The Five Pennies: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, The Five Pennies: date made: 1959. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Counted coins can be used to represent activities like wishing, dreaming, dancing, laughing, and loving, as in this song by Sylvia Fine. It was sung by Danny Kaye in a Paramount Pictures movie. Louis Armstrong is also shown on the cover of the sheet music.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1959
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 30.6 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in
- place made: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.029
- catalog number: 1988.3086.029
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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