You'll Find Old Dixieland in France: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Sheet music for the song "You'll Find Old Dixieland in France." The front of the four pages features a large Eiffel Tower with a blue background and a black and white photograph of Paris below. On the right of the Eiffel Tower is an inset circle with an image of men picking cotton in the field. At the bottom of the front page is the maker's mark, a white rectangle with black print that reads, [POPULAR [wreath with L.F. in center] EDITION / LEO. FEIST INC. NEW YORK / HERMAN DAREWSKI MUSIC PUBLISHING CO. LONDON, ENG.] The two inner pages are sheet music. On the bottom of the left page, the text states, [Copyright MCMXVIII by LEO. FEIST, Inc. Feist Building, N.Y. / International Copyright Secured and Reserved / London - Herman Darewski Music Pub. Co.] The back page is an advertisement for, [An 80 Page Patriotic Pocket / size Song Book]. Images of sheet music overlap each other on the right side of the page with a featured one on the bottom left, [SONGS / The Soldiers / And Sailors / SING].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1918
• Published by: Leo Feist, Inc., American, 1909 - 1934
• Published by: Herman Darewski Music Publishing Co Ltd., English, 1917 - 1919
• Composed by: George W. Meyer, American, 1884 - 1959
• Written by: Grant Clarke, American, 1891 - 1931
• Type: sheet music
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (closed): 10 7/16 × 6 3/4 in. (26.5 × 17.1 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (open): 10 7/16 × 13 9/16 in. (26.5 × 34.4 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Paris, France, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Military
• Topic: Music
• Topic: World War I
• Object number: 2017.111.21
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Alan Laird
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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