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Chinatown, My Chinatown [sheet music ]

American History Museum

Object Details

Composer

Schwartz, Jean

Lyricist

Jerome, William

Series Creator

DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997

Series Citation

The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
sova.nmah.ac.0300.s08_ref1937

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8516c805a-dac4-4fa3-8f5a-1fbcfe2bbdd2

Local Numbers

1988.3086 (NMAH Acc.)

Publication

New York and Detroit., Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1910

Composer

Schwartz, Jean

Lyricist

Jerome, William

Culture

Chinese Americans

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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 8: Geography
Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 8: Geography / 8.53-8.89: Foreign Countries(Afghanistan - Italy) / 8.67: China / Songs, Contains multiple editions of "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (one edition is from Up and Down Broadway), "Chong, He Came from Hong Kong," and "Goodbye Girls, I'm Through" from Chin Chin.

Extent

1 Item (Ink on paper)

Date

1910

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Type

Archival materials
Sheet music

Series Rights

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Bibliography

Reproduced with commentary in Krystyn R. Moon, Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s, Rutgers University Press, 2005, pp. 102-104.

Genre/Form

Sheet music

Series Restrictions

Collection is open for research.
NMAH.AC.0300.S08_ref1937
Large EAD
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8516c805a-dac4-4fa3-8f5a-1fbcfe2bbdd2
NMAH.AC.0300.S08
ACAH

Record ID

ebl-1560700349708-1560700349794-4

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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 8: Geography

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