"God Bless America"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1939
name: label: composer; lyricist
content: Berlin, Irving
label: publisher
content: Irving Berlin, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the song “God Bless America,” written and composed by Irving Berlin, and published by Irving Berlin, Inc in 1938. Irving Berlin (1888–1989) wrote the song in 1918, at the end of World War I. In 1938, with war again approaching, Berlin revised the work as a “peace song.” Kate Smith’s recording of the updated “God Bless America” became the number three hit in 1939.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Church and State
label: related event
content: World War I
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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: Religion
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content: 1939 exhibit
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0320.07
label: accession number
content: 1983.0320
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0320.07
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 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 23.495 cm