Jim Crow. - Record Detail

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Collection:Song Broadsides

Item ID: 002510-BROAD

Accession Number: 94-017 Goldstein

Title: Jim Crow.

Date:[1835-1877]

Publisher: s.n.

Place of Publication:Boston, MA

Subject: Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century. | Songs -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | Popular music -- United States -- 19th century -- Texts. | African Americans in popular culture -- Songs and music -- Texts.

Physical Description:1 broadside (1 item on 1 sheet) : ill. ; ca. 23 x 14 cm.

Location:binder 13, item 111

Series:kg 29/35

Notes:Without music.
Date based on sheet music copyright and active dates of Warren Theatre in Boston.
"As Sung At The Warren Theatre.--Boston."--beneath title.
Woodcut vignette of a African-American man walking above text in 1st column.
Text in triple columns in thiry-one four-line stanzas.
"Sold wholesale & retail by William Rutter, No. 1, Snow's Wharf, Boston."-between text columns.
Variant of Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets # 1117.

Please see the Kenneth S. Goldsein American Song Broadside website at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/Broadsides/index.html for more information.

First Line:First line:
O gentlemen and ladies fair.

Notation:Lyrics only