Our home town
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Item data
Title
Our home town
Collection
Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
Sheet music, 1921.
Names
MacDonald, Ballard (Lyricist)
Wohlman, Sol (Illustrator)
Carroll, Harry, 1892-1962 (Composer)
Royce, Edward, 1870-1964 (Director)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1921
Place: New York
Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein
Library Location
Music Division
Shelf locator: M.C. (Ziegfeld follies, 1921)
Subjects
Genres
Notes
Content: Cover illustrated by Wohlman.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: F Ziegfeld Jr. presents Ziegfeld Follies of 1921--Cover.
Content: First line of chorus: Broadway's a plain street compared to our Main Street.
Content: First line of text: My home's 'way down in the Hampshire hills.
Content: For voice and piano.
Content: Staged by Edward Royce--Cover.
Content: Sung by [Gus] Van & [Joseph] Schenck--Cover.
Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Statement Of Responsibility: lyric by Ballard McDonald ; music by Harry Carroll.
Date: Copyright date: 1921
Physical Description
Extent: 1 vocal score (3 p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Covers separated.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG99-C447
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14535762
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9acf9870-c5ff-012f-743b-58d385a7bc34
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1921
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MLA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Our home town" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9acf9870-c5ff-012f-743b-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1921). Our home town Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9acf9870-c5ff-012f-743b-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Our home town" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9acf9870-c5ff-012f-743b-58d385a7bc34
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