UNICO Award, presented to Harry Warren
date: label: presentation date
content: 1959
name: label: recipient
content: Warren, Harry
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This trophy was presented by the Los Angeles chapter of UNICO to composer Harry Warren on November 20, 1959. It made of medium-brown stained wood with two brass engraved plates, two brass-plated figures holding torches on lower sides, two brass-plated columns with eagles, brass-plated lyre in wood box with metal mesh back, and a brass-plated winged figure with wreath on top. The plates are engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>PRESENTED TO<br>HARRY WARREN<br>(SALVATORE GUARAGNA)<br>BY LOC ANGELES CHAPTER<br>UNICO – NATIONAL<br>NOVEMBER 20, 1959</p>
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content: <p>and:</p>
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content: <p>FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY -<br>HIS MELODIES SPRING FROM HIS INNERMOST SOUL & FLOW THROUGHOUT<br>AMERICA & THE WORLD BRINGING JOY & HAPPINESS TO EVERY HEART –</p>
label: Description
content: <p>UNICO, translated from the Italian, means "one of its kind." and the letters are interpreted as U-Unity, N-Neighborliness, I-Integrity, C-Charity, O-Opportunity. UNICO is a nationwide service organization exclusively open to men and women of Italian heritage or persons married to men and women of Italian heritage.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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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: Cultures & Communities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jophe Jones and Julia Riva
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.3101.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.3101.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2002.3101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trophy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 3/4 in x 16 in x 4 3/4 in; 52.705 cm x 40.64 cm x 12.065 cm