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1926

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1936

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2017

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Sheet Music, Quit Cryin’ the Blues: Fox-Trot

This is a Sheet music. It was music composed by Archie Bleyer and Felix Lewis and designed by Hap Hadley Studio and published by Charlotte-Irving and Co..

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. 1931. Its medium is lithograph on paper.

It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Libraries, Cooper Hewitt, M1356.L49 Q5 1931.

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  • Sidewall, Archie's Arms
  • screen-printed on vinyl.
  • Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt and Friends of Wallcoverings Funds.
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Its dimensions are

26.5 × 18 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/16 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.

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