Didn't you believe?
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Title
Didn't you believe?
Collection
Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
Sheet music, 1921.
Names
Caldwell, Anne, 1867-1936 (Lyricist)
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (Composer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1921
Place: New York
Publisher: T.B. Harms
Library Location
Music Division
Shelf locator: M.C. (Good morning, dearie, 1921)
Subjects
Genres
Notes
Content: First line of chorus: Didn't you believe?
Content: First line of text: When I used to look in a booklet that I took from Grandad's knee.
Content: For piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: Staged by Edward Royce--Cover.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Anne Caldwell ; music by Jerome Kern.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 vocal score (6 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG99-C282
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14533102
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 841acea0-c5ff-012f-1c01-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Didn't you believe?" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/841acea0-c5ff-012f-1c01-58d385a7bc34
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Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1921). Didn't you believe? Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/841acea0-c5ff-012f-1c01-58d385a7bc34
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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Didn't you believe?" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/841acea0-c5ff-012f-1c01-58d385a7bc34
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