“Jenny Lind's Favorite Polka”
date: label: date made
content: 1846
name: label: publisher
content: G. P. Reed
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This sheet music is for the song “Jenny Lind's Favorite Polka” that was composed by Anton Wallerstein in 1846. G.P. Reed of Boston, Massachusetts published the sheet music. Jenny Lind was a Swedish opera singer nicknamed “The Swedish Nightingale,” who was so popular that P.T. Barnum offered her $1,000 a performance to come and tour America in 1850. Anton Wallerstein composed this polka to honor Lind.
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: 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: 1983.0424.087
label: accession number
content: 1983.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0424.087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 1/2 in x 10 in; 34.29 cm x 25.4 cm