"Bully"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1896
name: label: composer; lyricist
content: Trevathan, Charles E.
label: performer
content: Irwin, May
label: publisher
content: White-Smith Music Publishers
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song “May Irwin’s ‘Bully’ Song” was written and composed by Charles E. Trevathan, and published by White-Smith Music Publishers of New York, New York in 1896. “Bully Song” is advertised as being “sung with Great Success in the ‘Widow Jones’” by May Irwin. The cover features an illustrated African-American man in a top hat holding onto the top of the inset photograph of May Irwin and glaring at her. Irwin autographed the sheet music and wrote, “This is the only correct publication of the “Bully Song.” Irwin later became famous for being a part of the first cinematic kiss ever.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1154.15
label: accession number
content: 1979.1154
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1154.15
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: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm