"Ossian's Serenade"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1850
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Barnum, P. T.
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Lind, Jenny
label: publisher
content: Oliver Ditson
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the song “Ossian’s Serenade,” written by Ossian E. Dodge. It was published by Oliver Ditson in Boston, Massachusetts in 1850. The cover features an image of P.T. Barnum, Jenny Lind and Ossian Dofge with the caption "P. T. Barnum introducing Jenny Lind to Ossian Dodge The Boston vocalist & purchaser of the $625 ticket for the First Concert of the Swedish Nightingale in Boston."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0023.04
label: accession number
content: 1984.0023
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0023.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 9 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 24.13 cm