Object Details
- Description (Brief)
This sheet music is for the song “Streets of Cairo or, The Poor Little Country Girl” that was written and composed by James Thorton. The Jerry Vogel Music Company Inc. of New York, New York published this sheet music in 1939. The light red cover has an illustration of four notes with scenes from four different songs in the “Memory Lane Melodies” series. Barbelle signed the illustration in the lower right.
The cover art for this sheet music was made by American artist and designer Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887-1957). With a prolific career spanning over forty years, Barbelle created cover art for sheet music and albums.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- Vogel Music Co., Inc.
- date made
- 1939
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
- Object Name
- sheet music
