"The Grave of Bonaparte"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1843
name: label: publisher
content: Oliver Ditson
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “The Grave of Bonaparte,” by L. Leath. It was published by Oliver Ditson in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1843. The cover indicates this song was “ performed at the principal concerts of the Hutchinson Family.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family vocal group that sang in four-part close harmony, and featured in their repertoire political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works. They toured throughout New England and traveled with Frederick Douglass and performed in England in 1845.</p>
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: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0588.05
label: accession number
content: 1986.0588
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0588.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in; 32.385 cm x 24.765 cm