"Rock-a-Bye Baby”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1887
name: label: publisher
content: Chas. D. Blake & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music is for the song "Rock-a-Bye Baby,” part of a compilation entitled “Songs of the Old Homestead.” The music was published by Charles D. Blake and Company in Boston, Massachusetts in 1887. “The Old Homestead,” was a play written by Denman Thompson in 1885. Thompson’s portrait is included on the lower left of the cover. The cover is a pencil sketch of a family gathered in the living room of an old homestead house, with a depiction of the character Uncle Joshua Whitcomb at the forefront.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0235.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0235
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0235.02
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 10 3/4 in; 35.56 cm x 27.305 cm