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Title
Lucy Neal (solo & chorus) & Lucy Long / sung by the Ethiopian Serenaders
Contributor
Ethiopian Serenaders, performer
Allen, Edward William, active 1863-1900, printer, publisher
Pitman, Frederick, publisher
Last, Jay T., collector
Date Created and/or Issued
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
For voice and piano. ; Title from cover. ; Verses 2-4 of Lucy Neal printed as text on p. [3]. ; Verses 2-5 of Lucy Long printed as text on p. [4]. ; Caption illustration: The Ethiopian Serenaders (5 men in blackface) sitting in chairs playing banjos or accordion. ; Advertisements for additional scores printed on the bottom of pages [1-3]. ; "City agents: E. W. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane & F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row."
Extent
1 score (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 36 cm
Identifier
priJLC_SMUS Box T5
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/6932
Language
English
Subject
Blackface
Popular music--United States--To 1901
Popular music--England--To 1901
African Americans--Songs and music
Songs with piano
Love--Songs and music
Slavery--United States
Minstrel music
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States
African American women
Racism in language
Plantation life
Sheet music. (aat)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Sheet Music
Entertainment
Minstrels 1800's D-F
T5
21
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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