“Sweet Violets”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1882
name: label: composer; lyricist
content: Emmet, J. K.
label: publisher
content: John Church & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song “Sweet Violets” was written and composed by J. K. Emmet and published by John Church and Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1882. The cover totes this music as the “only correct and authorized edition.” The song “Sweet Violets” came from Emmet’s play, “Fritz among the Gypsies,” and was a humorous, “censored rhyme” song where the last word of a couplet that could be inferred to be crude because of the rhyming scheme, was left off and the next couplet sung.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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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: 1982.0441.03
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0441.03
label: accession number
content: 1982.0441
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 in x 9 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 24.13 cm