“At a Georgia Camp Meeting”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1897
name: label: composer
content: Mills, Kerry
label: user
content: Woodside, Lura
label: publisher
content: F. A. Mills
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song "At a Georgia Camp Meeting," was written and composed by Kerry Mills and published by F.A. Mills in New York, New York in 1897. The cover proclaims the song “a characteristic march which can be used effectively as a two-step, polka, or cake walk,” and shows images of blacks having a dignified party. The cake walk was often the last song at a dance and the best dancing couple was awarded a cake (the origin of the phrase “taking the cake”).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
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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: 1979.1154.18
label: accession number
content: 1979.1154
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1154.18
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