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Title: Mammy's pickaninny don't you cry (with quartette chorus). / Words and music by Chas. H. McCarron and Carey Morgan
Creator: McCarron, Chas. R. (Charles R.), 1891-1919, composer
Contributor: Hill, Gus, contributor
Morgan, Carey, 1885-1960, composer
Morgan, Carey, 1885-1960, lyricist
Stern, Joseph W., 1870-1934, publisher
McCarron, Chas. R. (Charles R.), 1891-1919, lyricist
Last, Jay T., collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918
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. ; Caption title. ; On cover: "sung by James Barardi." ; Song list titles on cover. ; First line: Down where the white folks children play. ; Illustrated brown and white title page. Includes images of minstrels performing in blackface surrounding a list of songs: "Song Successes from Gus Hill's Minstrels." ; Advertisement on back cover: "Musical Sensation of the Day!...Indianola."
Extent: 1 score (5 pages) ; 35 cm
Identifier: priJLC_SMUS Box T11
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/8735
Language: English
Subject: Blackface
Blackface entertainers
Popular music--United States
Songs, English--United States
Mothers and sons
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964--Songs and music
Choruses, Secular (Men's voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied
Songs with piano
Racism in language
Minstrel music
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States
African American women
African Americans--Songs and music
Sheet music. (aat)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sheet Music
Entertainment
Minstrels 1900's H-Z
T11
6
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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