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g99c447_003


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

Songs

Genres

Sheet Music
Scores

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

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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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