Fine Books & Manuscripts
Wed, Sep 18, 2019 12:30AM EDT
Lot 585
Five Pieces of 19th Century Jim Crow / Minstrelsy Sheet Music. (
Estimate: $200 - $300
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| $30 | $10 |
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
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[Sheet Music] Five Pieces of 19th Century Jim Crow / Minstrelsy Sheet Music. Including Civil War-era ?Raw Recruits, or Abraham?s Daughters? (1862); ?Mr. T. Rice as the Original Jim Crow? (New York: E. Riley, ca. 1830s), lithographed self-wrappers. 4to. [3pp.], with music and 44 verses of lyrics in black dialect; ?The Old Piney Woods? (Toronto, 1866); ?The Dark Sett/Celebrated Negro Quadrilles? (New York, ca. 1860s), lithographed sheet music; and ?Christy?s Melodies/Jim Crow Polka? (Boston, ca. 1848).
