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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Plantation Melodies |
| Date | 1867 |
| Record ID | 565464 |
| Collection Name | Sheet Music |
| Reference | SM Pictorial Winnemore |
| Theme | Leisure and Play Race, Ethnicity and Racism |
| Library of Congress Subject | African Americans Children Songs with piano African Americans Plantation life Popular music Minstrel music |
| Description | Subject: Image of two barefoot African American children sitting on a bench, one holding a book of music and the other playing a flute. A banjo is seen on the floor. |
| Author | Winnemore, A F |
| Publisher | Reed, George P |
| Places | Boston, United States |
| Illustrator | Steele, Silas Sexton |
| Document Type | Sheet Music |
| Book Type | Sheet music.aat Lithographs |
| Size | 1 score ([2],3, [1] p.) : lithograph, b&w ; 34 cm |
| Page Numbers | 1 score: lithograph, b&w, 34 cm |
| Additional Notes | Steele, Silas Sexton |
| Catalog Notes | "The words by S.S. Steele, Esq. as sung by A.F. Winnemore and his band of Virginia Serenaders. Arranged for the piano forte by A.F. Winnemore." For voice and piano. Collection title at head of t.p.: Plantation melodies, the words by S.S. Steele, as sung by A.F. Winnemore and his band of Virginia Serenaders / arranged for the piano forte by A.F. Winnemore. This is no.1 of 6 songs listed on t.p. as part of Plantation melodies. The number 109 appears twice at bottom of p. 1; the number 109 and 1 appear at bottom of p. 2 and 3. First line of text: On Tombigbee river So bright I was born. First line of chorus: Singing row away row, O'er de waters so blue. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1867 by Geo. P. Reed in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts." |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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