Sheet Music for "At an Ole Virginia Wedding"
date: label: Date
content: 1900
name: label: Published by
content: T.B. Harms & Francis, Day, & Hunter, Inc., American, 1875 - 1929
label: Composed by
content: Maurice J. Steinberg, American
notes: label: Description
content: A piece of sheet music entitled "At an Ole Virginia Wedding" across the top in large red text. The object is four pages long and on the cover page people are depicted dancing around two individuals, one being a woman in a wedding dress and another being a man in a suit, as they walk down the aisle. The last three pages of the object are all sheets of music.
label: Statement
content: Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: A Cinema Apart: The Larry Richards Collection of Early Black Film
label: Classification
content: Racist and Stereotypical Objects
label: Classification
content: Written Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.118.284.2
objectType: label: Type
content: sheet music
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13 1/4 × 10 3/16 in. (33.7 × 25.9 cm)