"What a Friend We Have in Jesus": Museum Object and Cultural History
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus": date made: 1880-1890. Object Name: music strip. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This music strip was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1880-1890. It is a music strip (4 feet long) - "What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” music by Charles Crozat Converse This strip can be played in 14-note organettes.
As indicated in an 1885 Catalog of Music for the Orguinette, the price of music was 4 cents per foot. The length of the music strip indicated above, is from the catalog.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1880-1890
- Object Name: music strip
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: rolled: 9 1/2 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 1991.0132.19
- accession number: 1991.0132
- catalog number: 1991.0132.19
- Credit Line: Gift of May Flewellen McMillan, Ph.D., in memory of Charles Edward McMillan and Eugene Charlton McMillan, Jr., M.D.
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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