A cover of a music sheet titled It Happened in Monterey in blue. The sheet and text of title, artist and composter information is white, red and blue. A Jazz image of ladies in burlesque wearing red, black or blue outfits with arms outstretched, twisted toward viewer with leg bent up displaying their legs. The Jazz band on their left are in the background and two suited top hat wearing men on the right with a silhouette of a party behind them.

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Sheet Music, It Happened in Monterey, for the Motion Picture King of Jazz

This is a Sheet music. It was written by Billy Rose and music composed by Mabel Wayne and published by Leo Feist.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of Esperanza Spalding Selects.

It is dated ca. 1930. Its medium is lithograph on paper.

It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1630.2.W39 I8 1930.

A black and white cover of a music sheet titled Solitude with a hovering smiling head of Duke Ellington in the center. His face is surrounded by faceless Jazz musicians. Each musician plays an instrument: piano, bass, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, and drums. There are floating notes around the musicians.

Sheet Music, Solitude
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1366.E44 S65 1934.
89.2016.13

A cover of a music sheet titled Love Songs of the Nile. It is covered with shades of fuschia behind the title words and on the right hand side. On the left is a black and white cropped head shot photograph of Ramon Navarro lying above and romantically staring at his female costar from the movie The Barbarian. To the right is a sketched drawing of running horses.

Sheet Music, Love Songs of the Nile
lithograph on paper.
Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1508.B76 L69 1933.
89.2016.15

Sidewall (France)

Sidewall (France)
block printed on handmade paper.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1931-45-57-a,b

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Object ID #18637723

Object ID #18637723
machine printed on paper.
Gift of Suzanne Lipschutz.
1991-89-160

Poster, Jazz Festival Willisau 2014

Poster, Jazz Festival Willisau 2014
screenprint on paper.
Courtesy of Annik Troxler.
50.2017.3

Its dimensions are

31 × 23.5 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Esperanza Spalding Selects.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2FYvJn/
Accession Number 89.2016.12
Object ID 1108726397