Object Details
- publisher
- Jacobs, Walter
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1917
- ID Number
- 1983.0424.138
- accession number
- 1983.0424
- catalog number
- 1983.0424.138
- Object Name
- sheet music
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 34.29 cm x 26.67 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Sheet Music
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_670958
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-7704-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
