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Title: The heathen Chinee musical album
Creator: Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, author
Contributor: Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, author
Tucker, Henry, 1826?-1882, arranger
Date Created and/or Issued: New York : Robert M. De Witt, 1871
Publication Information: TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: The poem offers a humorous account of a poker game involving Truthful James, the narrator, Bill Nye, a California miner, and Ah Sin, a "heathen Chinee."
Words to "The heathen Chinee" by Bret Harte. Henry Tucker, composer and arranger.
Type: text
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4q2nb08r
f M1619.H4 1871
Subject: Popular music--19th century--Scores
Gambling--California
Miners--California
Songs with piano

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