Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This sheet music is for the song “The Star of Glory” that was written and composed by Emmett J. Welch. The sheet music was published by Emmett J. Welch Music Publisher of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1918. The cover features an image of a mother and child praying for their husband and father who is fighting in World War I. The Star of Glory is the star hanging in the window, symbolizing that there is someone from that house fighting “over there.”The back ground of the cover has an illustration of soldiers trenches by “going over the top” of their trenches and charging into no man’s land.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1918
- ID Number
- 1983.0424.018
- accession number
- 1983.0424
- catalog number
- 1983.0424.018
- Object Name
- sheet music
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 10 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 26.67 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Sheet Music
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Music
- Record ID
- nmah_670832
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-f139-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
