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Title: My pretty yaller gal / written & sung by Thomas Vaughn of Christy's Minstrels
Creator: Vaughn, Thomas, 1823-1875, composer, performer
Contributor: Christy Minstrels, performer
Jacques & Co., pubisher
Sarony & Major, lithographer
Vaughn, Thomas, 1823-1875, performer
Quidor, George W., approximately 1817- engraver
Last, Jay T., collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1847
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: For voice and piano. ; Caption title. ; Illustrated list title page in black and white lithograph portrait of E. P. Christy, minstrel circle and members of the company in blackface. ; Verses 2-3 printed as text, on page 4. ; "Edwin P. Christy" stamped in cursive on cover. ; "G. N. Christy and T. Vaughn" printed below lithographs on cover. ; "G. W. Quidor, Engrv."
Extent: 1 score (4 pages) ; 35 cm.
Identifier: priJLC_SMUS Box T4
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/11900
Language: English
Subject: Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862--Portraits
Christy Minstrels--Pictorial works
Songs with piano
Blackface
Minstrel music
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States
African Americans--Songs and music
African American women--Songs and music
Vocal quartets with piano
Choruses, Secular (Men's voices) with piano
Popular music--United States--To 1901
Songs. (lcgft)
Scores. (lcgft)
Popular music. (lcgft)
Minstrel music. (lcgft)
Sheet music (aat)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Sheet Music
Entertainment
Minstrels 1800's Christy
T4
16
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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