Sheet Music, The Little Millionaire: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, The Little Millionaire: date made: 1911. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Plots for Broadway musicals like this one revolve around the dispersal of numbered fortunes, in this case the wealth of a young man known as "The Little Millionaire." The music is for a song from that production. "Oh You Wonderful Girl." Words and music are by George M. Cohan.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1911
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 27 cm x 34.5 cm; 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 13 19/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.047
- catalog number: 1988.3086.047
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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