Object Details
- Published by
- Mills Music Incorporated, 1919 - 1965
- Written by
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973
- Description
- Thirty-two (32) page booklet of sheet music. The front cover features an image of Sister Rosetta Tharpe holding a guitar in a grayscale image centered on blue background. The title features above the graphic in blue text printed over a black background [Eighteen Original Negro Spirituals by Sister Rosetta Tharpe].Beneath the image is much smaller blue text printed over a black background which reads [Spirituals with an Original and Appealing Religious Quality Set Down/Exactly as Sung by SISTER THARPE Since Infancy in Negro Churches/All Over the Country]. The Mill Music logo is shown centered along the bottom edge to the left of the price, printed in black text in a white-square background [$1.25].
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gayle Wald
- 1938
- Object number
- 2014.98.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- songbooks
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 12 × 9 × 1/8 in. (30.5 × 22.9 × 0.3 cm)
- Place printed
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Written Music
- Exhibition
- Musical Crossroads
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 053
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Religion
- Singers (Musicians)
- Spirituals (Music)
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.98.7
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59ad67216-8911-4123-a33f-0c3c192dcfb9
