Music Sheet, "Hello, Frisco!," 1915

THF109533 / Music Sheet, "Hello, Frisco!," 1915
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Artifact Overview

Hello Frisco--written for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915-- is a love song that also commemorates invention of the transcontinental phone line, introduced at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition. To inaugurate the line, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson recreated the first phone call; this time Bell was in New York and Watson was 3400 miles away in California.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Sheet music

Date Made

1915

Subject Date

1915

Creator Notes

Lyrics by Gene Buck. Music by Louis A. Hirsch. Published by M. Witmark & Sons, New York, New York.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

99.0.66.22

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Lithography

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 13.75 in
Width: 10.625 in