THE ORIGINAL CHARLESTON

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

THE ORIGINAL CHARLESTON

Entry/Object ID

92.35.1.1

Description

Color: col. Music - sheet, THE ORIGINAL CHARLESTON, for the piano with ukulele accompaniment, lyrics and music: Cecil Mack and Jimmy Johnson, New York: Harms Incorporated, 1923, four (4) pages, center page missing, orange cover with silhouette of two (2) dancers, back cover has pictures and instructions for dancing the Charleston Fox Trot, front cover reads "The Original CHARLESTON/ (in upper section), WITH/UKULELE/ACCOMPANIMENT/ (in black letters right center edge), The original of/all Charlestons,/first introduced/in 'Runnin" Wild'/ (in black letters lower left), WORDS AND MUSIC BY/CECIL MACK/AND JIMMY JOHNSON/HARMS/INCORPORATED/NEW YORK/ (in black letters lower right), MADE IN U.S.A." (in black letters lower left corner). Upper right corner written in pencil reads "Evans".

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

Search Terms

Documentary Artifact, Sheet music