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Dat borrowed watermelon : song & chorus

Contributor:
F. Welcker Co (illustrator)
Name:
Rollins, Ralph
Date:
1881
Language:
English
Publisher:
Balmer & Weber
Subject:
Songs with piano; Minstrel music; African Americans -- Songs and music; African Americans; Minstrel music -- United States
Resource Type:
Still Image
Form/Genre:
Songs with piano; Songs and music; Songs; Scores; Music; scores (documents for music)
Physical Description:
1 score (5 pages) : illustrations; 35 cm
Geographic Subject:
United States
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.; First line of text: Sambo gub a big party one night.; First line of refrain: Oh, dat watermelon.; At head of title: "All the rage".; There is an advertisement for another song (Oleander Blossom's birthday party, by Jacob Sawyer) below the illustration on the t.p.; Illustration for another song (Ise left de ole plantation, by Thomas P. Westendorf) on p. [6].; Illustration: caricatures of African-Americans dancing around a table on which sits a large watermelon / F. Welcker Co.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 20, no. 9
Collection:
Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)