Sheet Music, There's One in a Million Like You: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, There's One in a Million Like You: date made: 1912. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
The numerical phrase "one in a million" to describe an unlikely occurence or unusual person was used at least as early as the eighteenth century and became quite common by the early twentieth century when this sheet music was published. The lyrics are by Grant Clarke and music by Jean Schwartz.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1912
- 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: 1988.3086.043
- catalog number: 1988.3086.043
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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