Sheet Music, We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me): Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me): date made: 1940. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Numbers have sometimes been used to describe aspects of one person’s being. For example, in this popular song, copyrighted in1940, Dick Robertson, Nelson Cogane, and Sammy Mysels describe a lonely man forced to content himself three things “My Echo, My Shadow And Me.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1940
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23.2 cm x 31.7 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/8 in x 12 15/32 in
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.027
- catalog number: 1988.3086.027
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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