"Soldier's Joy"
date: label: date made
content: 1880-1890
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This music strip was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1880-1890. It is a music strip (5 ¼ feet long) - "Soldier’s Joy.” This strip can be played in 14-note organettes.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>As indicated in an 1885 <i>Catalog of Music for the Orguinette,</i> the price of music was 4 cents per foot. The length of the music strip indicated above, is from the catalog.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of May Flewellen McMillan, Ph.D., in memory of Charles Edward McMillan and Eugene Charlton McMillan, Jr., M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0132.17
label: accession number
content: 1991.0132
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0132.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: music strip
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: rolled: 9 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 6.35 cm