“A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody”
date: label: date made
content: 1919
name: label: composer
content: Berlin, Irving
label: publisher
content: Irving Berlin, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This sheet music is for the song “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” from the 1919 revue <i>Ziegfeld Follies.</i> Irving Berlin wrote the lyrics and composed the music to the song, and Irving Berlin Inc. of New York City published this sheet music in 1919. The cover features an illustrated image of a member of the chorus for the Ziegfeld Follies revue called a “Ziegfeld Girl.” The artist Henry Clive signed the illustration in the lower left.
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: 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: 1983.0424.145
label: accession number
content: 1983.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0424.145
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 1/4 in x 9 in; 31.115 cm x 22.86 cm