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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1963
- ID Number
- 2009.0017.19.01
- accession number
- 2009.0017
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- Tcherkassky, Marianna
- maker
- Ishimoto, May
- Schachtner
- ID Number
- 2007.0015.02
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1972
- ID Number
- 2016.0298.15
- accession number
- 2016.0298
- catalog number
- 2016.0298.15
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- Description
- This sheet music for the song “Mammy’s Gone Away” was written by Bernard Grossman and composed by Frank Grey. The music was published by Sam Fox Publishing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio in 1907. The cover is off-white with an illustrated portrait of a little boy sitting on the floor. This arrangement is for a song with violin or cello obbligato.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- publishing date
- 1907
- publisher
- Sam Fox Pub. Co.
- ID Number
- 1982.0439.23
- catalog number
- 1982.0439.23
- accession number
- 1982.0439
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- ET.234377.008B
- catalog number
- 234377.008B
- accession number
- 234377
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1961
- recording artist
- Orbison, Roy
- manufacturer
- Monument
- ID Number
- 1996.3034.05727
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3034
- catalog number
- 1996.3034.05727
- label number
- 45-438
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- Description (Brief)
- side 1: Art Hodes' Back-Room Boys featuring Sandy Williams. Low Down Blues; side 2: Art Hodes' Back-Room Boys. Bach-Room Blues (Blue Note 526).78 rpm.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- recording date
- 1944
- recording artist
- Art Hodes' Back-Room Boys
- Williams, Sandy
- manufacturer
- Blue Note
- ID Number
- 1978.0670.047
- accession number
- 1978.0670
- maker number
- 526
- catalog number
- 1978.0670.047
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- Description
- Yolande Betbeze, "the Basque spitfire," surprised Atlantic City and the nation in 1951 when she was named Miss America. The former Miss Alabama beat out over forty fair-haired, fair-skinned state champions with her dramatic singing performance and her undeniable Iberian beauty. Of Basque heritage, Betbeze tested the limits of a system that in the 1950s was still basing its standards on an ethnically and racially narrow definition of feminine beauty.
- Betbeze would go on to continue testing the Miss America institution with her refusal to parade in a bathing suit and, after her reign, with her advocacy of women's and minority rights, her political activism, and ultimately her generous donation of this, her original 1951 crown, to the Smithsonian Institution in 2005.
- Date made
- 1951
- ID Number
- 2005.0078.01
- accession number
- 2005.0078
- catalog number
- 2005.0078.01
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1969
- recording artist
- Mendes, Sergio
- Brasil '66
- manufacturer
- A&M
- ID Number
- 1996.3034.05272
- catalog number
- 1996.3034.05272
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3034
- label number
- 1049
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- Description
- The Oscar-winning song, “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” was written by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Johnny Mercer for the 1946 motion picture, The Harvey Girls. In the film, the song is an important element in a nine-minute sequence which charts the growing excitement in the Arizona community of Deadrock as the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train arrives. Among the passengers aboard the train are young women who have come to the Southwest to be waitresses, or “Harvey Girls,” in a Harvey House restaurant. The song became a staple in the repertoire of Judy Garland, the film’s star. Garland’s photograph is central to the design on the sheet music cover. The illustrations of dance hall girls and Harvey House waitresses that flank the photo convey graphically the central plot conflict in the movie.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- publishing date
- 1945
- publisher
- Leo Feist, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1985.0392.13
- accession number
- 1985.0392
- catalog number
- 1985.0392.13
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- Description (Brief)
- This original artwork, for pages 10 and 11, was used for the book Come Play House written by Edith Osswald with illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. This book was published by Simon and Schuster in New York, New York, in 1948.
- A Graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Eloise Wilkin (1904-1987) studied illustration. In her early years she worked as a freelance artist in New York City, illustrating schoolbooks for children learning to read, paper dolls and puzzles. She was married and raising a family in upstate New York when she started working from home creating illustrations for Little Golden Books in 1946. A prolific illustrator, Wilkin's work is easily identifiable for her adorable images of children with round faces and rosy pink cheeks. It is reported that she modeled her characters on her own family members and friends. Her beautifully detailed settings and backgrounds demonstrate her meticulous research and attention to detail. Her depiction of the idyllic home and family life reflected the post war optimism of the 1950s. She worked for Little Golden Books until 1984 and continued to design dolls for Vogue and Madame Alexander.
- A stalwart Catholic, Wilkins was much attuned to the awakening social conscious of the 1960s. In 1964, the National Urban League, headed up by Whitney Young, brought attention to what he considered a fundamental omission on the part of the juvenile publishing world who he accused of racial stereotyping. Indeed, there were no children of color depicted in this vast category of books, but Eleanor Wilkin was one of the first illustrators to include an integrated classroom in We Like Kindergarten.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1948
- maker
- Wilkin, Eloise Burns
- ID Number
- 1992.0634.070.06
- accession number
- 1992.0634
- catalog number
- 1992.0634.070.06
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- Description (Brief)
- Red Fraggle is a hand-rod puppet performed by Karen Prell on the television show Fraggle Rock. In a hand-rod puppet, like Red, the performer’s dominant hand goes into the puppet’s head and operates the mouth and sometimes other facial features. The less dominant hand controls the arm rods, which are thin rods connected to the puppet’s hands. Red is adventurous and energetic, and she loves to swim. It is her job to keep the Fraggle Rock pool clean. She is one of the five main Fraggles on the children’s program Fraggle Rock created by Jim Henson that aired for five seasons on HBO from 1983 to 1987. Henson created the Fraggle world as one where different types of creatures lived together in a world where they were interconnected and important to one another. From the beginning, the show was designed to be easily adaptable to different cultures, which generally led to each country having its own human character, such as Doc in the American version, with the same Fraggle scenes dubbed in local languages.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980s
- performer
- Prell, Karen
- maker
- Henson, Jim
- designer
- Frith, Michael
- builder
- Krewson, Rollie
- ID Number
- 2013.0101.16
- accession number
- 2013.0101
- catalog number
- 2013.0101.16
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1910
- composer
- Fischer, Fred
- depicted (sitter)
- Fox, Della
- maker
- Shapiro Music Publisher
- ID Number
- 2017.3021.228
- nonaccession number
- 2017.3021
- catalog number
- 2017.3021.228
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1961
- recording artist
- Francis, Connie
- manufacturer
- MGM
- ID Number
- 1996.3034.03105
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3034
- catalog number
- 1996.3034.03105
- label number
- K13051
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- Description (Brief)
- One of a set of 72 trading card featuring Superman, included in packages of Gum Inc.’s “Superman Bubble Gum” in 1940. Each “adventure story” card features an image of Superman on the front with a connected story on the back. The cards are one of the earliest examples of merchandise featuring the iconic superhero.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1940
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- copyright holder
- Superman, Inc.
- associated institution
- Superman of America Club
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- Superman, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1987.0213.079
- accession number
- 1987.0213
- catalog number
- 1987.0213.079
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- Description (Brief)
- The over whelming success of Little Golden books prompted a merchandizing extravaganza to create products representative of some of the he characters made popular by the books. The market for all things Little Golden Books created an amazing array of items marketed to children and their parents, including records, puzzles, activity books, games, coloring books.
- Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River. by Gertrude Crampton; illustrated by Tibor Gergely (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1946), 28 pgs.Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River. by Gertrude Crampton; illustrated by Tibor Gergely (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1946),
- Children's game, Scuffy the Tugboat, produced by the publishers of Little Golden Books, Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1972. Advertised to parents as a game for pre-schoolers and early school age children, Scuffy the Tug Boat taught fine motor skills, color recognition and group dynamics. Made for 1 to 4 players. Green rectangular box has image of boy and girl playing the game; inside are a plastic red and blue tug boat toy; a package of unassembled plastic waves with 4 cross-pieces; a cardboard and metal spinner; and 24 multicolored plastic anchors. Condensed story inside cover excerpted from book, Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River. ,
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1972
- maker
- Western Publishing Co., Inc.
- ID Number
- 1992.0634.064
- accession number
- 1992.0634
- catalog number
- 1992.0634.064
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- designer
- Larson, Rhea
- ID Number
- 1988.0483.07
- accession number
- 1988.0483
- catalog number
- 1988.0483.07
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1987
- recording artist
- Jackson, Michael
- ID Number
- 1996.3034.04056
- nonaccession number
- 1996.3034
- catalog number
- 1996.3034.04056
- maker number
- 34-07645
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- Description
- This sheet music is for the song for “Make Believe,” with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and music by Jerome Kern. It was published by T. B. Harms Company in 1927. This song was featured in 1927 Broadway musical Show Boat, one of the masterpieces of American theater.
- Show Boat is regarded as the first American musical to depart from the genre’s traditional light comedy by featuring serious dramatic complexities, notably race relations among people along the Mississippi River. Show Boat was adapted by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern from the 1926 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber. Both the book and the musical mix humor with nostalgia as they recall the disappearing culture of the show boat. A novelty form of performance in the 1800s, a show boat was a floating theater that featured melodramas, musical acts, dancing, and vaudeville as it traveled along American waterways such as the Mississippi, Cumberland, and Ohio Rivers. The popularity of showboats declined in the 20th century as the country moved from the rivers to the roads and motion pictures replaced the stage as the main form of entertainment. The musical Show Boat recalls this era, as it follows the Cotton Blossom and the people the boat affects while traveling up and down the Mississippi.
- Sheet music was a popular means of dispersing songs throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, before the widespread availability of phonographs and radio shifted the music industry’s focus to recorded songs. With sheet music such as this, people would typically gather around a piano and sing, bringing the stories and sounds of the theater into parlors across the country.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- publishing date
- 1927
- publisher
- T. B. Harms Company
- ID Number
- 1983.0691.11
- accession number
- 1983.0691
- catalog number
- 1983.0691.11
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1978
- maker
- Marvel Comics
- ID Number
- 2013.3039.274
- nonaccession number
- 2013.3039
- catalog number
- 2013.3039.274
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