"Milly-Illy-Illy Gade"
date: label: date made
content: 1926
name: label: depicted
content: Corson, Amelia Gade
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music for "Milly-Illy-Illy Gade" was composed by Marie Randby.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This song commemorates Mille Gade Corson's historic swim across the English Channel. Mille Gade Corson, the second woman to swim the English Channel, three weeks after Gertrude Ederle's record-breaking Channel swim, emigrated to the United States from Denmark. In 1919 Corson became a Life Saving Instructor and Lifeguard at the Harlem branch of the YWCA. Two years later she became the second woman to swim around Manhattan Island and attempted to swim the English Channel in 1923, but was forced to abandon the effort 2 miles from the French coast. After her successful 1926 swim, Corson returned to the United States to many accolades and performed on the vaudeville circuit as the first mother to swim the English Channel.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Swimming
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: general subject association
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sheet Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Esther Stoyanoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0729.04
label: accession number
content: 1981.0729
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0729.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 10 in; 31.115 cm x 25.4 cm