“Streets of Cairo”
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: publisher
content: Vogel Music Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “Streets of Cairo or, The Poor Little Country Girl” that was written and composed by James Thorton. The Jerry Vogel Music Company Inc. of New York, New York published this sheet music in 1939. The light red cover has an illustration of four notes with scenes from four different songs in the “Memory Lane Melodies” series. Barbelle signed the illustration in the lower right.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The cover art for this sheet music was made by American artist and designer Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887-1957). With a prolific career spanning over forty years, Barbelle created cover art for sheet music and albums.</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: 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: 1983.0424.179
label: accession number
content: 1983.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0424.179
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: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm