Strut Miss Lizzie / Home Again Blues: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black vinyl record with a yellow label at its center printed with black text. The record label logo is above the center; it is an illustration of a swan encircled with the text of the record label name [BLACK SWAN RECORDS]. Beneath the record's center it lists the song title and production information for each side. Side A reads [Strut Miss Lizzie / (Creamer - Layton) / Lulu Whidby / Henderson's Novelty Orch.] Side B reads [Home Again Blues / Berlin - Akst / Lulu Whidby]. Beneath the song titles there is production information, the manufacturer's name is printed along the bottom arc of the label [MFD. BY PACE PHONOGRAPH CORP., NEW YORK].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1921
• Published by: Black Swan Records, American, 1920 - 1923
• Recorded by: Lulu Whidby, American
• Recorded by: Fletcher Henderson, American, 1897 - 1952
• Type: phonograph records
• Medium: vinyl with ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: Diameter: 9 7/8 × 1/16 in. (25.1 × 0.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Blues (Music)
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2016.68.11
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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