“The Battle Song of Liberty”
date: label: date made
content: 1917
name: label: publisher
content: Jacobs, Walter
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This sheet music is for the song “The Battle Song of Liberty” whose music was composed by F.E. Bigelow and whose lyrics were written by Jack Yellen. The Walter Jacobs Company of Boston, Massachusetts published this sheet music in 1917. The cover features scenes of war, with battleships sailing and airplanes flying around explosions, and the specter of soldiers marching in file in the sky. The foreground features an illustrated image of the Statue of Liberty, and Starmer signed the cover in the lower right.
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: 1983.0424.138
label: accession number
content: 1983.0424
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0424.138
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: 13 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 34.29 cm x 26.67 cm