"Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis"
date: label: manufacturing date
content: 1904-1906
name: label: manufacturer
content: Regina Music Box Company
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This music box disc was made by Regina Music Box Co. in Rahway, New Jersey, around 1904-1906. It is Regina Disc #4599 - "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis," with words by Andrew B. Sterling and music by Kerry Mills. This was a popular song from 1904 which celebrated the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair. This disc is playable in a Regina Disc Music Box that can accommodate a 27” diameter disc.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This disc features the following patents:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>U. S. Patent #417649, dated December 17, 1889 by Oskar Paul Lochmann for a music plate for mechanical instruments.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>U. S. Patent #500374, dated June 27, 1893 by Gustav A. Brachhausen and Paul Riessner for a note-plate for music boxes.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Rahway
topic: label: Subject
content: Expositions and Fairs
label: related event
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John H. Bacon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.72.26.47
label: accession number
content: 299195
label: catalog number
content: 72.26.47
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music box disc
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in; 68.58 cm