"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1938
name: label: referenced
content: Carus, Emma
label: publisher
content: Irving Berlin Music Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song "Alexander's Ragtime Band," by Irving Berlin. It was published by Irving Berlin Music Corporation in New York, New York, in 1911 and 1938. This is a copy of the original titlepage from 1911.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This song was featured in the 1938, 20th Century-Fox musical film <i>Alexander's Ragtime Band,</i> directed by Henry King and starred Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Jack Haley, and Ethel Merman.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The cover art for this sheet music was made by Irish-American artist John Frew (1874-1955). Frew immigrated to the United States in 1895. He was active through the mid-1940s and also created cover artwork for magazines and book covers.</p>
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: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sheet Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Corrine Glass
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0136.04
label: accession number
content: 2010.0136
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0136.04
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 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm