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Title: Rusco and Hockwald's famous Georgia minstrels' song album
Contributor: Georgia Minstrels, contributor
Harold Rossiter Music Company, publisher
Rossiter, Harold, compiler
Last, Jay T., collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1921
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: For voice and piano. ; Title from cover. ; Songs in the collection are copyrighted between 1910 and 1921. ; "Nearly Half a Century of Success ; Forty People Band and Orchestra ; Rusco & Hockwald's Famous Georgia Minstrels song album" -- Cover title. ; Colored lithograph including caricatures of minstrels performing in blackface. Includes portraits of W. A. Rusco and Arthur Rockwald. ; Advertisements on page [2]: "Heard at the Minstrel - Show." ; Advertisements on pages [12]: "Egyptian Princess' Horoscope." ; Advertisements on page [15]: $100.00 Worth of Information for 50 [cents]..." ; Advertisements on page [16]: "Fun Making Jokes and Tricks." ; Advertisements on page [17]: "Magic Tricks and Jokes for the Amateur..." ; Advertisements on page [18]: "Harold Rossiter's Gigantic Song Collection..." ; Advertisements on page [19]: "Live Jokes for Live People." ; Advertisements on page [20]: "Gypsy Madge Dream-Dictionary."
Extent: 1 score (18 pages) ; 35 cm
Identifier: priJLC_SMUS Box T11
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/8425
Language: English
Subject: Blackface entertainers
Popular music--1921-1930
Minstrel music
Card tricks
Blackface
African Americans--Songs and music
Songs with piano
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States
African American women
Popular music--United States
Sheet music. (aat)
Songs. (lcgft)
Popular music. (lcgft)
Minstrel music. (lcgft)
Scores. (lcgft)
Publishers' advertisements. (rbgenr)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sheet Music
Entertainment
Minstrels 1900's H-Z
T11
15
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the sheet music was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2019.

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