SHE IS THE SUNSHINE OF VIRGINIA

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

SHE IS THE SUNSHINE OF VIRGINIA

Entry/Object ID

96.74.1.1

Description

Music, Sheet: A piece of sheet music, "She is the Sunshine of Virginia", published by Shapiro, Bernstein, and Company, New York, 1916. The cover is dark green with a color image of a woman in a white dress standing on a stair riser, holding a basket in one hand and touching the branch of a tree in the other. This image is bordered in white and gold with stylized column-like designs on the left and right in gold and blue. The title is in white lettering at the top with the names of the lyricist (Ballard MacDonald) and composer (Harry Carroll) below. On the back is an advertisement for the Gem Dance Folio for 1917, containing music scores for popular dance songs. The object is in fair condition with substantial creases, dog ears, and tears. There are also three red stains on the back left edge. None

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Music, Sheet

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Composition, Musical

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Music

Search Terms

Documentary Artifact, Sheet music, Shapiro, Bernstein and Company