"Lay Me Where the Birds Are Singing"
date: label: publishing date
content: ca 1880
name: label: publisher
content: F. A. Cotharin
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “Lay Me Where the Birds are Singing,” which was published around 1880 by F. A. Cotharin in New York, New York. Cotharin produced a journal called <i>Musical Album</i>, in which he would publish various musical pieces. The cover of this sheet music features an illustrated portrait of Florence Rice Knox, a popular singer at the time whose image was used to sell this music. Printed on the cover:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Compliments of C. F. Cook & Co.<br>12 Winter Street, Boston</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1154.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.1154
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1154.02
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: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm