“My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1892
name: label: composer, lyricist
content: Thornton, James
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the song “My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon” that was written and composed by James Thornton and published by Frank Harding in 1892. The plain white cover features a blue image of a woman on a stepladder looking up at the moon, which has a face in it. The cover notes that the song was “written for and sung by Bonnie Thorton at Tony Pastor’s Theatre, New York.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0320.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0320.02
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 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 34.29 cm x 26.035 cm