Old Bob Ridley

Contributor:

White, Charles, 1821-1891 (performer); Wakelam & Bro (lithographer)

Name:

White, Charles, 1821-1891

Date:

1855

Language:

English

Publisher:

Firth, Pond & Co

Subject:

African American men -- Songs and music; Freed persons -- Songs and music; Plantation life -- Songs and music; Popular music -- United States; Popular music; Minstrel music; Plantation life; Freed persons; African American men; Songs with piano; Minstrel music -- United States

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

Songs with piano; Songs; Scores; 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.; Verses 2-4 printed as text on p. 5.; Illustration: engraving of Afro-American man / Wakelam & Bro.; First line of text: Now white folks Ill sing you a ditty.; First line of chorus: Oh, Bob Ridley ho.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 20, no. 34

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)