“Good-Bye My Lady Love”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1904
name: label: user
content: Woodside, Lura
label: lyricist; composer
content: Howard, Joseph E.
label: performer
content: Emerson, Ida
label: publisher
content: Harris, Charles K.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music for the song “Good-Bye My Lady Love” was written and composed by Joseph. E. Howard, and published by Charles K. Harris of New York, New York in 1904. The cover touts the song as being “Introduced & Sung with Great Success by Ida Emerson,” with a full length picture of Emerson framed by flowers in the center of the cover. The cover also notes that Howard and Emerson were the composers of the popular “’Hello Ma Baby’ and ‘Honey Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone’ etc.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The cover art for this sheet music was made by brothers William Starmer (1872-1957) and Frederick Starmer (1878-1962) Born and raised in England, the brothers moved with their family to New York, William in 1898 and Frederick in 1899. The Starmer Brothers flourished until 1929. William became a U.S. citizen in 1924, while Frederick returned to England in 1929.</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: 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: 1979.1154.07
label: accession number
content: 1979.1154
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1154.07
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: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm