"The Sparkling Polka"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1855
name: label: publisher
content: Horace Waters
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the composition “The Sparkling Polka,” by Thomas Baker. It was published by Horace Waters in New York, New York in 1855. The cover features a “view of the interior of the Publisher’s Great Piano and Music Establishment.” Horace Waters (1812-1893) was a hymn book and sheet music publisher and keyboard manufacturer and dealer. Waters began his "Piano and Music Establishment" in 1845 selling organs, pianos, sheet music and melodeons. His sons, Leeds Water and Horace Waters, Jr. took over the company in 1864.
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: 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: 1983.0694.13
label: accession number
content: 1983.0694
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0694.13
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: 12 1/2 in x 10 in; 31.75 cm x 25.4 cm