originInfo: 1899[New York]Jos. W. Stern & Co. ; Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Stamp of former owner on cover: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

text: Cover illustration by F.S. Manning.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

keyDate: yes

field: copyrightDate

title: We could hear the darkies singing, as she said farewell to me [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New York ; Chicago; LondonJos. W. Stern & Co.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Talbot, Walter J.

type: personal

namePart: Braisted, Harry

authority: naf

usage: primary

namePart: Carter, Stanley

type: topic

authority: lctgm

text: Death

authority: lcsh

text: Betrothal

type: content

text: Cover illustration in green and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Walter J. Talbot.

text: On cover: a first night hit with the California tenor Walter J. Talbot.

type: statement of responsibility

text: words by Harry Braisted ; music by Stanley Carter.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

supplied: no

title: On a morning bright and clear, to my old home I drew near [First line of song]

text: Sheet music

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collectionTitle: American popular songs.


namePart: Henry & Gallot

type: corporate

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Signature of former owner in pencil on cover above photograph: Frank N. Marsh

text: Cover illustration in green, blue and yellow of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Henry and Gallot.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Henry and Gallot, song illustrators.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Collins, Edna

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Edna Collins.

text: On cover: a first night hit with the celebrated artiste Edna Collins.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Cooke, Will J.

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Will J. Cooke.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Will J. Cooke of Cooke and Osten, song illustrators.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Curran, John P.

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of John P. Curran.

text: On cover: a first night hit with John P. Curran.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Lamar, Al.

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Al Lamar.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Al Lamar.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: La Porte sisters

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of  the La Porte Sisters.

text: On cover: a first night hit with the superlative La Porte Sisters.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Leslie, Marie

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Marie Leslie.

text: On cover: a first night hit Marie Leslie.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Marshall, Edna Bassett

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Edna Bassett Marshall.

text: On cover: a first night hit Edna Bassett Marshall.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Norton, Hugh R.

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: a first night hit with Hugh R. Norton.

text: Signatrue of former owner on left hand side of cover: Helen K. Ross.

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Hugh R. Norton.

text: words by Harry Braisted ; music by Stanley Carter.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Reynolds, Jennie

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Jennie Reynolds.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Jennie Reynolds.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Blanche Ring.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Blanche Ring.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


namePart: Starr, Lillian

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: a first night hit with Lillian Starr.

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Lillian Starr.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Curtis, Ritta

text: Death

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration in blue, green, brown and orange of river with trees in foreground; inset of photograph of Ritta Curtis.

text: On cover: a first night hit with Ritta Curtis.

text: words by Harry Braisted, music by Stanley Carter.

title: The girl I loved in sunny Tennessee

text: Sheet music


title: My mem'ry often wanders to the days of long ago [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWeber, Fields & Stromberg

namePart: Sterling, Andrew J.

namePart: Marks, Alfred C.

namePart: Falke, Charles

text: Wells

text: Love letters

text: Jealousy

text: Forgiveness

text: Childhood

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Cover illustration of girl at water well, surrounded by yellow flowers.

text: On cover: being featured by Chas. Falke.

text: Inset of photograph of Chas. Falke on left hand side of cover.

text: words by Andrew J. Sterling ; music by Alfred C. Marks.

title: The girl I used to love long ago

title: I wonder does she think of me, my love of other days [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Who is the girl that's pretty, who is the girl that's witty [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Hurtig & Seamon

namePart: Brehany, Louise M.

namePart: Northrup, Theo. H. (Theodore H.)

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

type: temporal

text: Music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. Sunday, Sept. 1, 1901, pages 5-8.

text: On cover: sung by Louise M. Brehany.

text: Cover illustration features woman walking in field with inset of photograph of Louise Brehany [?]

text: words and music by Theo. H. Northrup.

title: Gladys

text: Sheet music


title: I got a nigger as black as coal, I used to love him 'pon my soul [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoM. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Van, Gladys

namePart: Herbert, W. W.

text: African American men

authority: tgm

text: Poor persons

text: Courtship

text: On cover: sung with great success by the clever little comedienne Gladys Van.

text: Inset of photograph of Gladys Van [?] on left hand side of cover.

text: words by Jean C. Havez ; music by W.W. Herbert.

title: Good things come high

text: Sheet music


title: To a village church I went one Sabbath morn not long ago [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkRichard A. Saalfield

namePart: Starr, Hattie

namePart: Haynes, Gertrude

text: Death

text: Church services

text: Children and adults

type: geographic

text: United States

text: To 1899

text: Grandmothers

text: Cover features photograph of woman playing a pipe organ with an altar boy standing to her left holding music.

text: On cover:  and sung by Gertrude Haynes assisted by her boy choir at Koster and Bial's.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Jan. 26 [?], 1900.

text: words and music by Hattie Starr.

title: Grandma's last amen

title: Amen, Amen. After the pray'r is said. [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Dark was the day and dreary dull was the sky above [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[Cincinnati]J. Alexander Vinton

namePart: Moore, Ernest V.

namePart: Vinton, Mrs. J. Alexander

text: Death

text: Drowning

text: Homeless persons

text: Cover features inset of photograph on Ernest V. Moore; sung by Ernest V. Moore.

text: On cover: dedicated to Ernest V. Moore Cincinnati, O.

text: words and music by Mrs. J. Alexander Vinton.

title: Going out with the tide

text: Sheet music


title: To git his habits on got your habits on and when dey learn how to read and write why most of dem niggers just think they're white [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkFeists & Frankenthaler

namePart: Wilson, George

namePart: Queen, John

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Slaves

text: Emancipation

text: United States

text: Dedication on title page: "Respectfully dedicated to my sister Mrs. Dave Hennessey."

text: Inset of photograph on cover of George Wilson in blackface.

text: On cover: sung with immense success by George Wilson.

text: words and music by John Queen ; arr. by Wm. H. Tyers.

title: Got your habits on

title: De niggers aint a bit like dey use to be since old Abey Lincoln he done set dem free [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: The Last of the Rohans.  Grandmother's songs [uniform title]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Woodward, Matt C.

text: Fairy Tales

text: Grandmothers

text: On cover: Andrew Mack's songs as sung by him in his new play, The Last of the Rohans.

text: Cover illustrations features 6 small photographs of Andrew Mack dressed in various costumes from the play.

text: words by Matt C. Woodward ; music by Andrew Mack.

title: Grandmother's song

title: No matter what we may achieve in fame or wordly glories [First line of song]

title: Oh! I had a little dog and his name was Buff [First line of first refrain]

title: Oh! Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief [First line of second refrain]

title: Oh! wee Willie Winkle is a running thro' the town [First line of third refrain]

title: Oh! when I was a bach'lor I lived by myself [First line of fourth refrain]

text: Sheet music


title: I want my little Hannah badly [First line of chorus]

namePart: Pendleton, E.H.

text: African American women

text: African Americans

text: Southern States

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration features an African American woman wearing a bonnett holding a handkerchief in one hand and a purse in the other, with small house and palm trees in background.

text: On cover: a Blackville Craving.

text: words and music by E.H. Pendleton.

title: Hannah! or I want my Hannah

title: I knows a little girl an' she lives down south down wid de cotton an' de corn [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Messenger Boy. Has anybody seen our cat? [uniform title]

originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co.

namePart: Conner, T.W.

text: Children and animals

text: Pets

text: Cats

text: United States

text: Cover illustration by Slarmer features 2 cats.

text: Inset of photograph on lower right hand cover of James T. Powers dressed in messenger boy uniform.

text: On cover: as sung by James T. Powers in "The Messenger Boy."

text: additional verses by James T. Powers ; music by T.W. Conner.

title: Has anybody seen our cat?

title: I'm upset now, let me tell you why [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


text: Children and animals

text: Pets

text: Cats

text: United States

title: Has anybody seen our cat?

text: Sheet music


title: I feel just as happy as a girl can be, upon my word, it's true [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkFrancis, Day and Hunter

namePart: Barclay, Lawrence

text: Fishermen

text: Betrothal

text: Sexual attraction

text: Cover illustration features two photographs of Vesta Victoria [?] in two settings.

text: On cover: Vesta Victoria's new song successes as featured by the famous English comedienne on her American tour.

text: words and music by Lawrence Barclay.

title: He calls me his own Grace Darling

title: And he calls me his own Grace Darling [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: A rich and lovely maiden to her father said one day, I am engaged to wed now dad, please do not turn away [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Camp, Shep

namePart: Browning, W. E.

namePart: Reinhart, C. W.

text: Betrayal

text: Swindlers & swindling

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration features line drawing of a father sitting in a chair with his daughter kneeling in front of him with her head on his knee.

text: Former owner's property stamp on cover: Alex M. Kramer.

text: On cover: a song that will live forever.  As sung with great success by some of the best known artists on the American stage.

text: words by W. E. Browning ; music by Sheppard Camp ; arr. by C.W. Reinhart.

title: He sent me back to you

text: Sheet music


title: O, listen now, I'll tell you how he sail'd upon the bay [First line of chorus for first verse]

originInfo:
1899
    Carroll Carrington

namePart: Carrington, Carroll (1872?-1901)

namePart: Carrington, Alice

text: San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

text: Boats

text: California

text: San Francisco

text: Berkeley (Calif.)

text: Powder mills

text: Musical supplement of the Sunday Examiner.

text: On cover: as sung by Billy Farrell at the Orpheum.

text: Photograph of Billy Farrell in middle of cover.

text: words and music by Carroll Carrington ; arr. instrumentally by Alice Carrington.

title: He took a little trip across the bay

title: And so he far'd whene'er he dar'd [First line of chorus for second, third, and forth verses]

text: Sheet music


title: Out amongst the flowers sweet, lingers pretty Marguerite, sowing with her hands so white [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkCarl Fischer

namePart: Moses-Tobani, Theodore (1855-1933)

namePart: Brine, Mary D.--(Mary Dow)

text: Gardening

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

authority: aat

text: Flower gardens

text: For Mezzo-Soprano in Eb.

text: Cover features elaborate gold and red printing and illustration of 3 young women in a garden, dressed in Grecian costumes, playing harp, lyre.

text: words by Mary D. Brine ; music by Theo. Moses-Tobani.

title: Hearts and flowers. A new flower song

title: Hearts and flowers. A new flower song

text: Sheet music


title: I'se got a little baby, but she's out of sight [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co. ; Harms Inc.

namePart: Howard, Joseph E. (Joseph Edgar) (1878-1961)

namePart: Emerson, Ida

text: Telephone lines

text: Courtship

text: In key of F.

text: by Howard and Emerson.

title: Hello ma baby

title: I wonder who's kissing her now.  Hello ma baby [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


text: Gardening

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Flower gardens

title: Hearts and flowers

title: Hearts and flowers

text: Sheet music


text: Telephone lines

text: Courtship

text: Stamp on cover of former owner: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

text: In F

text: by Howard and Emerson.

title: Hello ma baby

text: Sheet music


text: Telephone lines

text: Courtship

text: Cover illustration features one man and one woman, both in blackface, speaking on the telephone to eachother.

text: by Howard and Emerson.

title: Hello ma baby

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co. ; Robbins Music Corporation

text: Telephone lines

text: Courtship

text: by Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson.

title: Hello ma baby

text: Sheet music


title: From my window in the attic, ev'ry evening when the moon has come to cast [First line of song]

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Courtship

text: Serenading

text: Cover illustration features African American man dressed in tails with top hat and cane in hand, speaking with an African American woman  who is looking out her 2nd story open window in the evening.

text: words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Max Dreyfus.

title: Hello ma Ragtime gal

text: Sheet music


title: In a spot far away, from the wide world so gay, there's a bower that nobody knows [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoShapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer

namePart: Franklin, Irene

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

namePart: Behler, Agnes

text: Love

text: Flower gardens

text: Cover illustration features photograph of Aggie Behler in center surrounded by pink roses.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Aggie Behler.

text: Signature of former owner on top right hand of cover: Leora Lehase [?]

text: words by Irene Franklin ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: Her name is Rose

text: Sheet music


namePart: Dudley, Daisy

text: Love

text: Flower gardens

text: Cover illustration features photograph of Daisy Dudley in center surrounded by pink roses.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Daisy Dudley.

title: Her name is Rose

text: Sheet music


namePart: Davis, Olive Maude

text: Love

text: Flower gardens

text: Cover illustration features photograph of Olive Maude Davis in center surrounded by pink roses.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Olive Maude Davis.

title: Her name is Rose

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkShapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer; / Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

text: Love

text: Flower gardens

text: In center of cover signed photograph of Harry Von Tilzer: "Yours in melody Harry von Tilzer."

text: Initials of former owner written in pencil in top right hand corner of cover: L L

title: Her name is Rose

text: Sheet music


title: Here's to the rose in the earthen cup, here's to the faded flower [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills; / Maurice Richmond Music Co.

namePart: Krouse, H. Sylvester

namePart: Goodall, Wm. Richard

namePart: Davis, Jessie Bartlett

text: Death

text: Betrayal

text: Roses

text: Dedicated to Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis.

text: For high voice.

text: On cover: illustration of red rose laid over a landscape with tree in front and house with red roof.

text: words by Wm. Richard Goodall ; music by H. Sylvester Krouse.

title: Here's to the rose

text: Sheet music


title: I'll sing a toast to your eyes, sweetheart, here's to your laughing eyes [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChichagoThe S. Brainards Sons Co.

namePart: Foster, Frieda Fay

namePart: Reasoner, Elsie

namePart: Wheeler, Van Rensselaer

text: Eyes

text: Love songs

text: Trust

text: On cover: as sung by Van Rensselaer Wheeler.

text: Cover illustration features 4 tulips in center of cover with decorative border.

text: For baritone.

text: words by Elsie Reasoner ; music by Frieda Fay Foster.

title: Here's to your eyes sweetheart

text: Sheet music


title: Her ma always calls her Mary [First line of chorus]

namePart: Hamilton, George

namePart: Heelan, Will A.

namePart: Dressler, Marie (1869-1934)

text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Names, personal

text: Cover features large photograph of Marie Dressler [?]

text: On cover: sung by Marie Dressler.

text: Supplement to the New York Journal and Advertiser, March 25, 1900, pp. 5-8.

text: words by Will A. Heelan ; music by George Hamilton.

title: Hey! there, Mame!

title: A maiden I met and admired at first sight, her manner so shy and retired won me quite [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Names, personal

text: Signature of former owner in bottom right hand corner of cover: Th Charles[?]

text: On cover: an instantaneous success with Bonnie Thornton, Merri Osborne, Josephine Sabel, Zelina Rawlston, Gertie Gilson, Felix & Barry, Gladys Van, Madge Fox, May Wentworth, Annie Lloyd, Lydia Hall, The Davenports.

title: Hey! there, Mame!

text: Sheet music


text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Names, personal

text: Cover illustration features colored drawing of a young lady holding an umbrella.

text: Supplement of the St. Louis Star, Sunday, April 29th, 1900.

title: Hey! there, Mame!

text: Sheet music


title: A coon cake walk was about to begin, the dead swell coons was all coming in [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Hugo V. Schlam

namePart: Bivins, Nathan

text: African American men

text: Cakewalk (Dance)

text: Contests

text: Composer's first name written in pencil in upper right hand corner of first page.

text: words and music by Nathan Bivins.

title: His Rag-time walk won the prize

text: Sheet music


title: There's a little cottage standing on the Susquehanna shore [First line of chorus]

originInfo:
1899

      [Chicago ; New York]

    Will Rossiter

namePart: Graham, Howard

namePart: Rosenfeld, Monroe H.

text: Susquehanna River

text: Homecomings

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: sung by John Claxton and Harry Leighton with J.H. Haverly's New Mastodon Minstrels.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Sep. 30, 1900, pp. 5-8.

text: Cover features photograph of young woman sitting at a spinning wheel in front of a fireplace.

text: written and composed by Howard Graham and Monroe H. Rosenfeld.

title: The home of the girl I love

title: I have roamed thro sunny Italy, and France and England, too [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


originInfo:
1899
    Will Rossiter

text: Susquehanna River

text: Homecomings

text: Betrothal

text: Dedication on title page: To my friends, Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Hill, Chicago, Ill.

title: The home of the girl I love

text: Sheet music


title: When the ball is over I'll see you honey to your home [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkCharles B. Ward Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Ross, Mabel Fenton (1872-1931)

namePart: Daly, Jennie Joyce

text: Betrayal

text: African American men

text: Courtship

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Cover features photographs of Mabel Fenton and Jennie Joyce Daly.

text: On cover: dedicated to Miss Mabel Fenton.

text: words and music by Jennie Joyce Daly.

title: Honey let me share with you your home

title: I met a man at a color'd ball, he was so handsome grand and tall [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: In Cooney Isle there'll be a swell reception, the rag-time dance they'll do beyond compare [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Milwaukee, Wis.Chas. K. Harris

namePart: Dunbar Sisters

text: Social dancing

text: 19th century

text: Ragtime music

text: Cover illustration features 4 women in hula costumes with thatched cottage in background; inset of photograph of Dunbar sisters.

text: On cover: as sung with great success by Dunbar Sisters.

text: by Max Hoffman.

title: Honolulu dance

title: All you darkies grab your gals, then wheel and swing [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Though black and angry clouds may rise to hide the blue of summer skies [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Milwaukee, Wis.International Music Co.

text: Courage

text: Happiness

text: Hope

text: Cover features photograph of Clara Butt.

text: On cover: sung by the eminent English contralto Clara Butt.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Dec. 24, 1899.

text: music by Manuel Klein.

title: Hope on!

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkRichard A. Saalfield

namePart: Field, Richard

text: Angels

text: Courage

text: Happiness

text: Hope

text: Back cover features color illustration of red heart with red roses and yellow bows coming out from either side of heart.

text: Cover illustration by R.S. Ament[?], features color illustration of angel holding burning torch with Greek or Roman wreath in hair.

text: Printed on top of title page: Sunday, October 13, 1901.

text: music by Richard Field and Manuel Klem [sic]

title: Hope on!

text: Sheet music


title: Got a gal, a little angel an' she lubs me too [First line of song]

namePart: Moulton, Evelyn

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Jealousy

text: Klondike River Valley (Yukon)

text: Gold discoveries

text: Courtship

text: Cover illustration features caricature of an African American couple with big red lips.

text: words and music by Evelyn Moulton.

title: How I lubs dat gal ob mine

text: Sheet music


title: With thanksgiving we come to thee, with rejoicing we worship thee [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Ira D. Sankey

namePart: Sankey, I. Allan--(Ira Allan) (1874-1915)

text: Spanish-American War, 1898

text: Peace

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Sailors

text: American

text: Harvesting

text: War allies

text: Cover illustration by Paul West; features angel with blue, yellow and green gown with inset illustrations of Ira D. Sankey; Fanny J. Crosby

text: On back cover is printed a history of the American Thanksgiving and, George Washington's Proclamation of 1785 to set aside and observe a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer.

text: On cover: composed & written expressly for the Thanksgiving number of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

text: Supplement to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 26, 1899.

text: composed and written by Fanny J. Crosby and Ira D. Sankey.

title: A Hymn of Thanksgiving

title: For a bountiful harvest and its bright, golden treasures [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: An actor man, on a one night stand met a girl who sent each day a note or two [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkFeists & Frankenthaler

namePart: Helf, J. Fred

namePart: Falke, Charles

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Actors

text: Cover illustration features sad looking African American woman all dressed in red with tree branches all around her.

text: Dedicated to my pal Chas. Falke.

text: Inset of photograph of Chas. Falke on cover.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Chas. Falke.

text: written and composed by J. Fred. Helf.

title: I ain't got no happy home to leave

text: Sheet music


title: Deed I aint seen no messenger boy [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHugo V. Schlam

text: Messengers -- 1800-1899

text: Telegrams

text: Marital conflict

text: Cover illustration features an African American woman looking down a path with a messenger boy sitting behind her on a park bench.

text: On cover inset of photograh of white woman looking as though she is holding an small African American messenger boy in the air with one hand.

text: words and music by Nathan Bivins.

title: I ain't seen no messenger boy

title: A hungry looking coon just come to town, told about his past life [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: He sat within his cottage dark and lonely, the letter in his hand he just had read [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkLeo E. Berliner & Co.

namePart: Berliner, Leo E.

namePart: Lind, W. Murdoch

text: Forgiveness

text: Desertion

text: Marital conflict

text: Cover illustration features man sitting on a chair with a letter in his hand.

text: words by  W. Murdoch Lind ; music by Leo E. Berliner.

title: I can't forget how dearly I have loved her

text: Sheet music


title: Have you ever had a wife, that could spend more than you make [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWilliam Pilling

text: Marriage

text: United States

text: Marital conflict

text: Home economics

text: Cover illustration features an African American couple.  The woman is showing off her dress and the man looks bewildered.

text: Dedicated to Billy McClain.

text: words and music by Nathan Bivins.

title: I can't see ma money go dat a-way

text: Sheet music


title: You know Tom since I've lost my mother [First line of chours]

originInfo: 1899New YorkFeist & Frankenthaler

namePart: Alexander, Geo. B.

text: Death

text: Spelling bees

text: Betrothal

text: On cover inset of photograph of J. Fred Helf and Geo. B. Alexander, "The Broken Brokers."

text: On cover: the spelling match song.

text: words and music by J. Fred Helf and Geo. B. Alexander.

title: I couldn't spell that word because I love you

title: Oh with joy my thoughts oft roam, back to my old southern home [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Last Tuesday night I missed ma babe, he never showed around [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Gambling

text: Poker

text: Racetracks (Horse racing)

text: Cover illustration features caricatures of 4 African American men sitting around a table playing poker.

text: words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards.

title: I couldn't stand to see my baby lose

title: But I couldn't stand to see ma baby lose [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


text: Interpersonal relations

text: Gambling

text: Poker

text: Racetracks (Horse racing)

text: On cover: successfully sung by Miss May Irwin; Inset of photograph on cover of May Irwin.

text: Cover illustration by Bert Cobb of caricature of African American couple sitting on a love seat with a small dog by the woman's side.

text: words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus. Edwards.

title: I couldn't stand to see my baby lose

text: Sheet music


namePart: La Rue, Bobby

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Gambling

text: Poker

text: Racetracks (Horse racing)

text: Bobby La Rue

text: On cover: successfully sung by Bobby La Rue; inset of photograph on cover of Bobby La Rue in blackface.

title: I couldn't stand to see my baby lose

text: Sheet music


namePart: Allman, Dan

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Gambling

text: Poker

text: Racetracks (Horse racing)

text: On cover: successfully sung by Mr. Dan Allman; inset of photograph on cover of Dan Allman.

title: I couldn't stand to see my baby lose

text: Sheet music


title: There's a certain yellow coon lives in this town [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Will Rossiter

namePart: Knox, Paul J.

namePart: Reiterman, Lewis

text: Gambling

text: Depression (Mental state)

text: Luck

text: words and music by Paul J. Knox ; arr. by Lewis Reiterman.

title: I don't care if I never wake up

text: Sheet music


title: Well I don't care to be your lady friend no more [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Rogers Bros. Music Publishing Co.

text: Jealousy

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Photograph of May Irwin in center of cover.

text: On cover: May Irwin's great coon hit. A ragtime declaration of independence.  As sung with great success in her new farce "Sister Mary" by Glen MacDonough.

title: I've gone and lost my little Lou, the gal I thought was mine [First line of song]

title: Sister Mary.  I don't care to be your lady friend no more [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: There's a swell pianist living in Coontown, he's a thorough bass scholar, you see [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkEdward B. Marks Music Corporation

namePart: Jones, Irving

text: African American musicians

text: Music education

text: Ragtime music

text: words and music by Irving Jones ; arr. by W. H. Tyers.

title: I don't understand Rag-time

text: Sheet music


title: I don't want no Jonah hangin' round

namePart: Cannon, Hughie L. (1877-1912)

namePart: Nobriga, Vevie

text: Voodooism

text: Gambling

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Cover illustration features an African American man sitting on a beach watching a whale swim in the ocean.

text: In the center of the illustration of the whale is a small photograph of Vevie Nobriga [?]

text: On cover: sung with great success by Vevie Nobriga of Van & Nobriga.

text: words and music by Hugh Cannon.

title: I don't want no Jonah hangin' round

text: Sheet music


title: Yon Yonson is my feller, and he bane a Swedish man, he work on lumber down in Minnesote [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899ChicagoSol Bloom

namePart: Penn, William H.

namePart: Allison, Jack

namePart: Allison, Maude

text: Courtship

text: Immigrants

text: Swedish

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: as sung by the clever comedienne, Maude Allison.

text: Photograph of Maude Allison holding carpet bag and saluting in center of cover.

text: Signature of former owner in pen across top of cover: Miss Minnie Zimmerman.

text: words by Jack Allison ; music by William H. Penn.

title: I got another man to change my name (Swedish dialect song)

title: Then aye bet he yump and yump, and he'll hit his head a bump [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: They were sitting close together in the quaint old fashioned room [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Sol Bloom

namePart: Irving, Bob

namePart: Courtney, Maude

namePart: Polla, William C. (1876-1939)

namePart: Jefferson, Gene

text: Marriage

text: United States

text: First loves

text: Inset of photograph of Maud Courtney on cover.

text: Music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, oct. 27, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: On cover: sung by Maud Courtney.

text: words and music by Jefferson & Irving ; arr. by William Polla.

title: I haven't changed my mind since then

title: I've never changed my mind since then, dear [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]Sol Bloom

namePart: Talley, Harry L.

text: Marriage

text: United States

text: First loves

text: Inset of photograph of Harry L. Talley on cover.

text: On cover: a story from real life full of tenderness.  Sung by Harry L. Talley.

text: Cover illustration by Edgar Keller [?] of old couple sitting together on sofa holding hands with cat at their feet.

text: words by Gene Jefferson, music by Bob Irving ; arr. by William Polla.

title: I haven't changed my mind since then

text: Sheet music


title: She said she loved another, and was going far away [First line of chorus]

namePart: Thornton, James (1861-1938)

namePart: Thornton, Bonnie

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Forgiveness

text: Desertion

text: On cover: introduced and sung by Miss Bonnie Thornton.

text: Photograph of Bonnie Thornton on cover.

text: words and music by James Thornton.

title: I hope she's doing well

title: One face is all I ever see, one voice is all I hear [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: I long to see just once again the spot where I was born [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Cincinnati, O.Philip Kussel

namePart: Brennen, R. H.

namePart: Story, Pauline Brutting

namePart: Jones, Francis

text: Mothers & children -- 1800-1899

text: Homesickness

text: Childhood

text: Cover includes inset of photograph signed: yours in song Francis Jones.

text: On title page: "Dedicated to my boyhood friends around the old home at Madison, Ind."

text: Cover illustration of log cabin with log fence around it

text: words by R.H. Brennen ; music by Pauline B. Story.

title: I long to see the old home once again

text: Sheet music


title: Dere's only one gal in dis world dat I can really see [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co.

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

namePart: Beaumont Sisters

text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration features African American man dressed in top hat and long coat walking on a path in a park.

text: Inset of photograph of Beaumont Sisters on cover.

text: On cover: sung by Beaumont Sisters ; dedicated to Mr. M. Levine, N.Y.

text: words and music by Andrew B. Sterling.

title: I love ma babe

text: Sheet music


text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Cover features photograph of young woman with an illustration of a woman singing.

text: Musical supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Aug. 5, 1900.

text: On cover: sung by Clifford and Huth.

text: words and music by Andrew B. Sterling.

title: I love ma babe

text: Sheet music


title: Your heart, love, is now in my keeping so this is the end of all weeping [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Trevelyan, Arthur

namePart: Stenhammar, Sigfirid

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Forgiveness

text: Desertion

text: For high voice.

text: words by  Arthur Trevelyan ; music by Sigfrid Stenhammar.

title: I love you

title: After all we meet again as in the springtime of our love [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: I love the sweetest girl on earth, her weight in solid gold she's worth [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; Chicago ; LondonJos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Marion, David

namePart: Gilson, Lottie

text: Marriage

text: Betrothal

text: Trust

text: Cover design features green background with red hearts.

text: Photograph of Lottie Gilson on cover.

text: words and music by Dave Marion.

title: I love you and you love me

text: Sheet music


title: I will always be faithful to you, dear, thro' the long weary hours I will wait [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Phila, Pa.Jos. Morris

namePart: Manning, A. C.--(A. Clarence)

namePart: Pease, Frank D.

text: Marriage

text: Betrothal

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Cover features photograph of a young woman standing at an open gate speaking with a man.

text: Photograph of Frank D. Pease [?] on cover.

text: words by Frank D. Pease ; music by A.C. Manning.

title: I shall leave the old gate always open

title: I stood beside the garden gate one year ago tonight [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Miss Hannah Johnson is a high-toned gal, like other gals has sweethearts by the bar'l [First line of song]

text: Murder victims

text: Courtship

text: Cover illustration features an African American man playing a guitar and serenading an old couple at the window.

text: by Al Johns.

title: I wants my Hannah

text: Sheet music


title: A gay little blonde soubrette the kind that you've often met [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkSol Bloom

namePart: Browne, Raymond A. (1871-1922 )

namePart: Penn, William H.

namePart: Rawlston, Zelma

text: Women singers

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Broadway (New York, N.Y.)

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, June 24, 1900.

text: On cover: sung by Zelma Rawlston on the Cherry Blossom Roof Garden New York, Broadway & 44th St.

text: Photograph of Zelma Rawlston on cover.

text: words by Raymond  A. Browne ; music by William H. Penn.

title: I wish I was back on Broadway

text: Sheet music


title: Just a year ago I stood beside the river, and the girl I loved was standing by my side [First line of song]

namePart: Denney, Will F.

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Cover illustration features river with moonlight on water with empty park bench in foreground.

text: On cover: sung by Will F. Denney ; inset of photograph of Denney on cover.

text: words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


namePart: Witt, Charles E.

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Inset of photograph of Chas. E. Witt on cover.

text: Signature of former owner in pencil on right margin of cover: Anna E. Chrestien.

text: words by Andrew B. Sterling, music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


namePart: Rice & Harvey

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Inset of photograph of Rice & Harvey on cover.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


namePart: Trewellyn, George

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Inset of photograph of Geo. Trewellyn on cover.

text: Written on photograph: sung by Geo. Trewellyn with Primose & Dockstader's Minstrels.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


namePart: Wesel & Sheridan

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Inset of photograph of Wesel and Sheridan on cover.

text: Written on photograph: sung by Wesel & Sheridan.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


namePart: Hassmer, Lloyd

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Inset of photograph of Lloyd Hassmer.on cover.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co. / Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Signed photograph of Harry Von Tilzer on cover.

title: I wonder if she's waiting

text: Sheet music


title: A mother on a winter's eve, sat by the firelight [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Howley, Haviland & Co.

text: Mothers and daughters

text: Love, Maternal

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

title: I wonder where she is tonight

text: Sheet music


text: Mothers and daughters

text: Love, Maternal

text: Signature of former owner in pencil on bottom of title page: Paul Pioneer.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

title: I wonder where she is tonight

text: Sheet music


title: I'll get mad, I'll get bad, wid dat man o' mine [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoM. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Standish, Joseph W.

namePart: Silberberg, J. A.

text: Jealousy

text: Adultery

text: Asian American women

text: Cover illustration features caricature of an angry looking African American woman facing an African American man who is smoking a cigarette.

text: words by Jos. W. Standish ; music by J.A. Silberberg.

title: I won't play second fiddle to no yaller gal

text: Sheet music


title: Just a broken heart 'tis fill'd with care and pain [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkGagel Brothers

namePart: Clark, Charles Clinton

namePart: Wilson, Chas. J.

text: Sailors

text: American

text: Loneliness

text: Homesickness

text: Cover illustration features house surrounded by field with trees in foreground.

text: Inset of signed photograph of Sallie Stembler on cover.

text: On cover: an immense hit with Sallie Stembler.

text: words and music by Charles Clinton Clark ; arr. by Chas. Jerome Wilson.

title: I would give the world to see my dear old home

text: Sheet music


title: A gal I knew, a nice gal too, 'till someone told her she knew how to act [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWm. C. Dunn & Co. ; Shapiro Bernstein & Von Tilzer

namePart: Fengler, Anette

namePart: Heelan, Will A.

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Cover illustration features African American woman singing "Oo, Oo, Oo."

text: Inset of photograph of Anette Fengler.

text: On cover: rendered by Anette Fengler.

text: words by Will A. Heelan ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Bonnell, Joe

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Joe Bonnell on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Joe Bonnell.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music

publisher: Wm. C. Dunn & Co. ; Shapiro Bernstein & Von Tilzer


namePart: Blondell, Libbie Arnold

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Libbie Arnold Blondell on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Libbie Arnold Blondell.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Diamond, George H.

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Geo. H. Diamond on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Geo. H. Diamond.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Fay, Elfie V.

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Elfie V. Fay on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Elfie V. Fay.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

namePart: Hall, Artie

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Artie Hall on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Artie Hall, Georgia coon shouter.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Keaton, Joe, Mr. and Mrs.

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Keaton on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by Mr. & Mrs. Joe Keaton.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: O'Brien Sisters

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: On cover: rendered by OBrien Sisters.

text: Inset of photograph of the OBrien Sisters on cover.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: On cover: rendered by Blanche Ring.

text: Signature of former owner in pencil on top of cover: Bettina Nye.

text: Inset of photograph of Blanche Ring on cover.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Ward, May

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of May Ward on cover.

text: On cover: rendered by May Ward the dainty little comedienne.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: Inset of photograph of Harry Von Tilzer on cover.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkShapiro Bernstein & Von Tilzer

text: Actresses -- 1890-1899

text: Minstrel shows

text: Actors

text: On cover: Harry Von Tilzer's famous old hit.

title: I'd leave ma happy home for you

text: Sheet music


title: A far from home and kindred an aged darkey lay, 'mid strangers he was dying [First line of song]

namePart: Penn, William H.

namePart: Jefferson, Gene

namePart: Irving, Bob

namePart: Kelly, Spencer

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Cover illustration by Edgar Keller features a rowboat sinking in a marsh with sun set reflected on water in the background.

text: Inset of photograph of Spencer Kelly on cover.

text: On cover: sung by Spencer Kelly.

text: words by Gene Jefferson ; music by Bob Irving ; arr. by William H. Penn.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: Morrison, John

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of John Morrison on cover.

text: On cover: sung with great success by the famouse baritone Mr. John Morrison.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: Stetson, Ettta

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of Etta Stetson on cover.

text: On cover: as sung by the brilliant vocal comedienne Etta Stetson, with the Herald Square Opera Co.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: Whalley, Norma

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of Norma Whalley on cover.

text: On cover: sung by Norma Whalley.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: King, Mabel Taylor

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of Mabel Taylor King on cover.

text: On cover: sung by Mabel Taylor King.

text: Signature of former owner in pen on top cover: H.C. Jagger, Jr.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: Scanlon, Barry

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of Barry Scanlon on cover.

text: On cover: as sung and featured by Barry Scanlon.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


namePart: Wambold & Lancaster

text: Death

text: African Americans

text: Men

text: Kentucky

text: Inset of photograph of Wambold & Lancaster on cover.

title: I'd like to hear that song again

text: Sheet music


title: While the victim's smiling brightly, you just press the button lightly [First line of first verse of chorus]

originInfo: 1899[New York]F. Ziegfeld, Jr.

namePart: Woodruff, Harry

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: De Koven, Reginald (1859-1920)

text: Photography

text: To 1899

text: Sexual attraction

text: Personals

text: Inset of photographs of Anna Held and Harry Woodruff on cover.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Dec. 31, 1899.

text: On cover: as sung by Harry Woodruff in Anna Held's production of "Papa's Wife."

text: words by Harry B. Smith ; music by Reginald De Koven.

title: I'd like to have a photograph of that

title: Papa's Wife.  I'd like to have a photograph of that [uniform title]

title: Photography is now the fad, 'tis growing worse and worse; the camera is a blessing which oft becomes a curse [First line of song]

title: Well, a note arranges meeting, she rais'd her veil in greeting [First line of second verse of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: If your heart would only beat for me what more could I ask in all this life? [First line of song]

namePart: Brown, Raymond A.

namePart: Simpson, Cheridah

text: Unrequited love

text: On cover: as sung by Miss Cheridan Simpson.

text: Music supplement to the New York Journal and Advertiser, March 10, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: Inset of photograph of Cheridan Simpson on cover.

text: words by Raymond A. Browne ;  music by William H. Penn.

title: If

title: If you love me, if you love me, speak and say I do not love in vain [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: In the path that led down to the old mill stream, two sweethearts were standing one day [First line of song]

namePart: Graham, Howard

namePart: Graham, Charles, composer

text: Marriage

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Cover illustration features a young couple walking in a field.

text: On cover: composed expressly for the N.Y. Sunday World ;  The Sunday World's Album of Ten Great Original Songs, part IV.

text: Supplement to the New York World, Sept. 24, 1899.

text: words by Howard Graham ; music by Chas. Graham.

title: If all the girls were like you

text: Sheet music


title: I dreamed the moon was a golden boat, up in the dark blue skies [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWeber, Fields & Stromberg

namePart: Russell, Lillian (1861-1922)

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

text: Stars

text: Moon

text: Love

text: Dreams

text: Cover illustration features a woman, wearing a long dress, sitting on a moon in the sky with stars in green background.

text: On cover: rendered with artistic effect by Lillian Russell at Weber and Field's Broadway Music Hall.

text: Inset of photograph of Lillian Russell on cover.

text: words by Harry B. Smith ; music by John Stromberg.

title: If all the stars were mine

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New York ; Chicago ; LondonM. Witmark & Sons

text: Stars

text: Moon

text: Love

text: Dreams

title: If all the stars were mine

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899[New York]Weber, Fields & Stromberg

text: Stars

text: Moon

text: Love

text: Dreams

title: If all the stars were mine

text: Sheet music


title: Oh! if the stars were mine, I know what I would do [First line of chorus]

text: Stars

text: 1 page of manuscript music.

text: [words by Harry B. Smith ; music by John Stromberg]

title: If all the stars were mine (chorus)

text: Sheet music


title: If I thought you loved another (it would break my heart I know)

namePart: Solman, Alfred (1868-1937)

namePart: Rutledge, Gertrude

namePart: Gillespie, Arthur

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Deception

text: Inset of photograph of Gertrude Rutledge on cover.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Gertrude Rutledge.

text: For tenor or soprano in G.

text: Respectfully dedicated to Signor C. Pellettiere.

text: words by Arthur Gillespie ; music by Alfred Solman.

text: Sheet music


title: If you were I and I were you [First line of song]

namePart: Loftus, Cissie (b. 1876)

text: Courtship

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Photograph of Cissie Loftus [?] in center of cover.

text: words and music by Cissie Loftus.

title: If I were you

text: Sheet music


title: Whatever fate that after years may bring to me [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Signature of former owner on cover:  Crosby [?]

text: On cover: sung by Miss Lucille Saunders ; as produced by the Alice Nielsen Opera Co. at The Casino, New York.

text: words by Harry B. Smith ; music by Victor Herbert.

title: If only you were mine

title: The Singing Girl.  If only you were mine [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: On cover: as produced by the Alice Nielsen Opera co. at The Casino, New York.

title: If only you were mine

text: Sheet music


text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Stamp on front cover: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Music Library.

title: If only you were mine

title: The Singing Girl.  If you were only mine [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: If all is over, if we must sever [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[Chicago]Sol Bloom

namePart: Weatherly, Frederic Edward (1848-1929)

namePart: Schleiffarth, Clara

namePart: Von Zieber, Baroness

text: Forgiveness

text: Desertion

text: Marital conflict

text: Inset of photograph of Marie Von-Zieber [?]  on cover.

text: Music supplement to the New York Journal and Advertiser, August 18, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: Cover illustration by ? Stanlaws; features forlorn looking woman walking along the beach.

text: On cover: sung by Baroness Marie Von-Zieber.

text: words by F.E. Weatherly ; music by Clara Schleiffarth.

title: If you forget

text: Sheet music


title: In a country town not long ago, a young man loved a girl [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Lyceum Publishing Co.

text: Friendship

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Cover includes photograph of a man and woman shaking hands.

text: Dedicated to Miss Carrie Christian.

text: by S.R. Henry.

title: I'll be your friend just the same

text: Sheet music


title: One day I saw two lovers in a garden, a little boy and girl with golden hair [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York; LondonJos. W. Stern & Co. ; Frank Dean & Co.

namePart: Bonehill, Bessie

text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Flowers

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: introduced with overwhelming success by the international favorite Miss Bessie Bonehill.

text: Cover illustration features dark and light green wreath with lyres in background.

text: words and music by Harry Dacre.

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.

text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Flowers

text: Betrothal

text: Cover illustration features red and blue wreath with blue lyres in background.

text: words and music by Harry Dacre.

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

text: Sheet music


text: Marriage

text: Flowers

text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Signature of former owner in pencil written on top of the word "Bluebells" on cover: Evelyn Werry.

text: words and music by Harry Dacre.

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

text: Sheet music


text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Flowers

text: Betrothal

text: Signature of former owner in pen in top right hand corner of cover: C W Parker.

text: Cover features photograph of Harry Dacre [?]

text: On cover: this song may be sung in public without fee or licence except in theatres and music halls.

text: 8 bar piano introduction begins the song.

text: words and music by Harry Dacre.

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

title: I'll be your sweetheart, or, Bluebells

text: Sheet music


title: What makes you turn your lovely face away [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkArthur W. Tams

namePart: MacDonald, James F., musician

namePart: Francis, W. T. (William T.)

text: Jealousy

text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Photograph of James F. Macdonald in center of cover.

text: On cover: sung by James F. Macdonald in "The Telephone Girl."

text: Signature of former owner in pen in top right hand corner of cover: L. Alexa Vader.

text: words and music by Wm. T. Francis.

title: I'll love you 'till I die

title: For by the stars that shine above you, I swear onest one I love you [First line of chorus]

title: Telephone Girl.  I'll love you 'till I die [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: A coon once had a lady friend, a black gal from Kentucky [First line of song]

namePart: Smith, George Totten

namePart: Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin) (1872-1926)

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Money

text: Courtship

text: Gambling

text: On cover: a Darktown "understanding."

text: Cover illustration features caricature of an African American couple, dressed nicely, with woman looking down at the man who is shorter..

text: words by Geo. Totten Smith ; music by A.B. Sloane.

title: I'm always glad to see you when you'll buy

text: Sheet music


title: Well I'm glad that face didn't grown on me [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Nobriga, Vevie

namePart: Daley, Tom

text: African American men

text: Adultery

text: Ugliness

text: Cover illustration features caricature of African American couple surrounding photograph of Van & Nobriga.

text: On cover: introduced and sung by Vevie Nobriga of Van & Nobriga.

text: words by Tom. Daley ; music by Gus. Edwards.

title: I'm glad dat face didn't grow on me

title: There's a coon in town that thinks he's out of sight 'cause he's always got a new suit of clothes [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Towards the close of evening, upon a quiet street, a pretty girl to meet her lover came [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Chicago ; New YorkWindsor Music Co.

namePart: Rosenfeld, Monroe H.

namePart: Graham, Howard

text: Adultery

text: Deception

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: dedicated to Miss Norma G. Parro, Chicago, Ill.

text: As sung by the eminent vocal stars: Miss Emma Carus, Harry Tally, Miss Lillian Waltone, Tom Mack, Chas. E. Witt, Miss Antoinette Cyr, and others.

text: Cover illustration features photograph of a younger white woman with arms around a older man.  Younger gentleman in background drawing away.

text: On back cover are 14 small photographs that illustrate the verses from the song.

text: words and music by Monroe H. Rosenfeld ; theme by Howard Graham.

title: I'm glad I met you, Mary

text: Sheet music


title: I've tried to find some way of late, to spend my afternoons [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Chas. B. Ward Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Evans, Dan

namePart: Ward, Chas. B.

text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Portrait of an African-American couple on cover.

text: words by Dan Evans, music by Chas. B. Ward.

title: I'm happy when I'm by ma baby's side

title: For I'm happy when I'm by ma baby's side [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Time's are mighty desperate in the heart of coon town you can hardly find a fat and healthy coon [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Jones, Irving

text: African American men

text: Illiterate persons

text: Millionaires

text: Cover features illustration of two African American men at a dinner table.  On the table there is a turkey and wine, with more wine bottles cooling in a bucket at his feet.  A servant is bringing a tray of fruit to the table.

text: On cover: as sung by Lew Dockstader, Lottie Gilson, Barnes and Sisson, Belle Davis, Montgomery & Stone, Williams & Walker, etc...

text: words and music by Irving Jones.

title: I'm livin' easy

text: Sheet music


title: I'm self manufactured and proud of the job, in manners I've nothing to learn [First line of song]

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Kelly, John T.

text: Manners & customs

text: Rich people

text: Popularity

text: On cover: an instantaneous hit as sung by John T. Kelly at Weber and Field's Broadway Music Hall.

text: Cover illustration of a man in formal wear making a speech to two other gentlemen.

text: Inset of signed photograph of John T. Kelly on cover.

text: words by Harry B. Smith ;  music by John Stromberg.

title: I'm making a bid for popularity

text: Sheet music


text: Manners & customs

text: Rich people

text: Popularity

title: I'm making a bid for popularity

text: Sheet music


title: The life of a doll is very hard, this some folks may not know [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkMyll Bros.

namePart: Williams, Malcolm

text: Dolls

text: abuse

text: Supplement to the New York World , Sept. 10th, 1899.

text: Cover illustration features a large illustration of a naked girl doll with long blonde hair wearing only socks and shoes.  Two smaller illustrations show the doll getting attacked by a dog and the dog leaving it in pieces.

text: words and music by Malcolm Williams.

title: I'm nothing but a big wax doll

title: For I'm nothing but a big wax doll [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: I am thinking love of thee, thoughts perhaps will never be [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoM. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Ffrench, Thomas E.

text: Redemption

text: Forgiveness

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: words and music by Thomas E. Ffrench.

title: Imogene

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkM. Witmark & Sons

text: Redemption

text: Forgiveness

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: words and music by Thomas E. Ffrench.

title: Imogene

text: Sheet music


title: In an old New England village, where the cliffs hang o'er the sea [First line of song]

originInfo:
1899

      New York

    Geo. L. Spaulding

namePart: Spaulding, George L. (1864-1921)

namePart: Sisters Hawthorne

text: New England

text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Comforting of infants

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: sung by the Sisters Hawthorne.

text: Inset of photograph of Sisters Hawthorne on cover.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, August 17, 1899, pp. 5-8

text: words and music by George L. Spaulding.

title: In an old New England village by the sea

text: Sheet music


text: New England

text: Marriage

text: Courtship

text: Comforting of infants

text: Death & burial

text: Cover illustration features a small village sitting on the coast of the ocean.

text: Supplement of the St. Louis Star, Sunday, September 24, 1899, pp. 5-8.

text: words and music by George L. Spaulding.

text: Sheet music


title: New England I was born in but if it occurs again, t'will be in London [First line of song]

namePart: Luders, Gustav (1865-1913)

namePart: Mathews, J. Sherrie

text: Taxicabs

text: City & town life

text: England

text: London

text: Tipping

text: Photograph on cover of two entertainers dressed as Chinese with one playing a chinese lute.

text: On cover: Mathews & Bulger's great song success; introduced in their rag time opera "By the Sad Sea Waves."

text: words by J. Sherry Mathews ; music by  Gustav Lüders.

title: In dear old London

title: By the Sad Sea Waves.  In dear old London [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: When evening shadows fall and again the dreary night steals on [First line of chorus]

namePart: Lind, W. Murdoch

namePart: Camp, Shep

text: Men's dreams

text: For low voice.

text: words by  W. Murdoch Lind ; music by W. Sheppard Camp.

title: In dreams I think of Thee

title: Day light fades a mystic spell comes o'er me as in my arm chair I recline [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: While the sun is slowly falling, in the far off Western sky [First line of song]

namePart: Silberberg, J. A.

namePart: Standish, Joseph W.

text: Death

text: Grief -- 1800-1899

text: Respectfully dedicated to H.B. Drake.

text: words by Jos. W. Standish ; music by J.A. Silberberg.

title: In fancy you are ever by my side

text: Sheet music


title: Take me back to New York town if I'm going to die [First line of chorus]

originInfo:
1899

      New York

    Howley, Haviland & Co.

text: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Death & burial

text: [by] Paul Dresser.

title: In good old New York town

title: In far off Santiago when the troops were coming home a soldier boy was left behind to die [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: When great King George ruled o'er the land, a land which now is free [First line of song]

namePart: Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)

namePart: Ranken, Frederic

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

text: United States

text: History

text: Revolution, 1775-1783

text: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

text: Associated objects

text: Nobility

text: England

text: On cover: as produced by the Frank Daniels Opera Company at Wallack's Theatre New York.

text: Signature of former owner in pen in center of cover: Bert B. Barry.

text: words by Frederic Ranken ; music by Victor Herbert.

title: In old Ben Franklin's days

title: The Ameer.  In old Ben Franklin's days [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


text: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

text: United States

text: History

text: Revolution, 1775-1783

text: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

text: Associated objects

text: Nobility

text: England

text: Stamped on cover: Hitchcock's 11 Park Row, N.Y.

title: In old Ben Franklin's days

text: Sheet music


title: You remind me of my mother Miss who lives so far away [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Phila, Pa.The State Music Co

namePart: Stanistreet, J.W.

namePart: Bunte, Fred W.

text: Mothers and sons

text: Male prisoners

text: Forgiveness

text: Love, Maternal

text: Cover illustration features a jail cell window with a cross and Easter lillies.

text: words and music by J.W. Stanistreet ; arr. by Fred. Bunte.

title: In jail on Easter morn

title: One Easter Sunday morn within a city prison cell, some young men talked of home so far away [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: The fragrant breeze is blowing through the valleys, the birds are singing in the dells and dales [First line of song]

namePart: Witt, Max S.

namePart: Taggart, George H.

text: Country life

text: Betrothal

text: Childhood

text: Cover illustration features a barefoot young couple crossing a river.

text: On cover: composed expressly for the New York Sunday World.  The Sunday World's Part I Album of Ten Great Original Songs.

text: Supplement to the New York World, Sunday Sept. 3rd 1899.

text: words by George Taggart ; music by Max S. Witt.

title: In the shadow of the Carolina hills

title: I am dreaming of the summer days that used to be [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Where the snow clad Rocky mountains tower upward to the sky [First line of song]

namePart: Jefferson, Gene

namePart: Irving, Bob

text: Marriage

text: Rocky Mountains -- 1800-1899

text: Death & burial

text: Scarlatina

text: Cover features photograph of small farm with pine trees and Rocky Mountains behind it.

text: by Gene Jefferson and Bob Irving.

title: In the shadow of the Rockies

text: Sheet music


title: In the vale of Chilhowee

originInfo:
1899

      Chicago ; New York

    Windsor Music Co.

namePart: Marion, Harry S.

namePart: Raymond, Fred. G.

text: Tennessee

text: Marriage

text: Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.)

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: the great poetic ballad of the day.

text: Cover illustration features a small country village; inset of photograph of a woman.

text: Former owner's last name [?] written in pencil on top of cover: Aalarde.

text: words by Fred. G. Raymond ; music by Harry S. Marion.

title: In the vale of Chilhowee

text: Sheet music


title: The world is full of maids, of diff'rent kinds and shades [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Rogers Bros. Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Carle, Richard (1871-1941)

namePart: Levi, Maurice

text: Adultery

text: Young women

text: Deception

text: Trust

text: Cover features photograph of 4 actors from the Rogers Brothers play "In Wall Street"

text: On cover: sung with great success in the Rogers Bros latest farce "In Wall Street."

text: lyric by Richard Carle ; music by Richard Carle and Maurice Levi.

title: An innocent young maid

title: A stranger from the country met a charming little miss [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


text: Adultery

text: Young women

text: Deception

text: Trust

text: Cover illustration features a fashionably dressed young woman with flowers all around her.

text: lyric by Richard Carle ; music by RIchard Carle and Maurice Levi.

title: An innocent young maid

text: Sheet music


title: If a real Irish swell you would see, just cast your eyes upon me [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Olcott, Chauncey (1858-1932)

text: Manners & customs

text: Rich people

text: Men

text: Clothing & dress

text: Ireland

text: On cover: songs introduced by Chauncey Olcott in his new production " A Romance of Athlone."

text: Signature of former owner on top center of cover: Bert B. Barry.

text: Cover illustration features a girl dressed in a toga holding a lyre.

text: words and music by Chauncey Olcott.

title: The Irish swell

title: A Romance of Athlone.  The Irish swell [uniform title]

title: For I am an Irish swell, that you can easily tell [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


text: Manners & customs

text: Rich people

text: Men

text: Clothing & dress

text: Ireland

text: words and music by Chauncey Olcott.

title: The Irish swell

text: Sheet music


text: Manners & customs

text: Rich people

text: Men

text: Clothing & dress

text: Ireland

text: Cover features listing of other popular songs published by M. Witmark & Sons.

text: words and music by Chauncey Olcott.

title: The Irish swell

text: Sheet music


title: Honey! is yo' goin' to leab yo' baby [First line of chorus]

namePart: Kennett, Karl

namePart: Udall, Lyn

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Courtship

text: Deception

text: Desertion

text: Cover illustration features caricature of two African American men wearing hats.  One is standing behind the other with his arm around him holding a cigarette.

text: words by Karl Kennett ; music by Lyn Udall.

title: Is yo' goin' to frow yo' baby down

title: Dahs a cola black lady date I lubs wif all ma soul [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: I guess you all know on New Year's Day ev'rybody makes a call [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co.

namePart: Bivins, Nathan

text: New Year

text: Rich people

text: Balls (Parties)

text: Rejection (Psychology)

text: Cover illustration by Starmer features an African American man dressed in ragged clothes speaking to an African American woman at the door of her home.

text: words and music by Nathan Bivins.

title: I'se a picking my company now

text: Sheet music


text: New Year

text: Rich people

text: Balls (Parties)

text: Rejection (Psychology)

text: Cover illustration features two scenes of two African American couples.  First scene the woman is rejecting the man ; second scene the man is rejecting the woman.

text: Musical supplement to the New York Sunday Press, Nov. 11, 1900.

text: words and music by Nathan Bivins.

title: I'se a picking my company now

text: Sheet music


title: For it may be that she loves you just the same, Jack [First line of chorus]

namePart: Freeman, Harry

text: Marriage

text: Forgiveness

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Cover features portrait of young white woman.

text: words and music by Harry Freeman.

title: It may be that she loves you just the same

title: A young man in his study sat, his face lined with care [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Amongst de coons I'm known as dandy Jimmy [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Norfolk, Va.Langhorne Music Co.

namePart: Johnson, Carroll

namePart: Farrell, Fred. C.

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Courtship

text: Dandies

text: United States

text: Musical supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Dec. 17, 1899, pp. 5-8.

text: On cover: as sung by the modern & merry minstrel Carroll Johnson.

text: Photograph of Carroll Johnson on cover.

text: words and music by Fred. C. Farrell.

title: It's a hot combination

text: Sheet music


title: Just at the grey dawn of morning, silently forging ahead [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Fagan, Barney

text: Mothers and sons

text: Sailors

text: American

text: Battles

text: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry

text: Cover illustration features an old naval captain, with a dog by his side, shaking hands with a young sailor.

text: On cover: excerpt from Chicago Tribune dated Sept. 24th 1899 describing the incident that the song is based upon.

text: words and music by Barney Fagan.

title: It's only a portrait of mother

text: Sheet music


title: Papa's Wife.  I've been dreaming of you, Baby [uniform title]

namePart: Sloane, F. J.

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin) (1872-1926)

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Courtship

text: Betrothal

text: Men's dreams

text: Signature of former owner in pen on page 3: Bettina Nye.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Anna Held in F. Ziegfeld Jr.'s production of "Papa's Wife."

text: Photograph of Anna Held on cover.

text: words by Harry B. Smith and F.J. Sloane ; music by A.B. Sloane.

title: I've been dreaming of you baby

title: I'se got a little lady, and her color's only shady [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Although we met but yesterday, you face familiar seems [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]Chas. K. Harris

namePart: Luders, Gustav (1865-1913)

namePart: Mathews and Bulger

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Betrothal

text: Sexual attraction

text: On cover: the hit of Mathews and Bulger.

text: Photograph of Mathews and Bulger on cover.

text: by Gustave Luders.

title: I've found you, honey, found you, now be mine

text: Sheet music


title: Joe had been wed but a couple of years, he lov'd his young wifie so truly [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Francis, Day & Hunter

namePart: Stevens, Geo. A.

namePart: McGlennon, Felix (1856-1943)

text: Marriage

text: Adultery

text: Desertion

text: Stamp of former owner on title page: Cantor Ephraim Spivack, Temple Sinai 1920-1948.

text: words by George A. Stevens ;  music by Felix McGlennon.

title: I've gone out for the day, or, I adore another

text: Sheet music


title: Now, I've got another baby, an he's all right [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWm. C. Dunn & Co.

namePart: David, Frank

namePart: O'Neil, Nellie

text: African American men

text: Courtship

text: Laziness

text: Inset of photograph of Nellie O'Neil in top left hand corner of cover.

text: On cover: introduced with tremendous success in Blaney's great production, " A Female Drummer."

text: words and music by Frank David.

title: I've got another baby

title: De first man what I loved I thought, that he was all the money [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: There's coons 'round town, they aint hard to find, would rather have a poke chop than have their right mind [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]Jos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Bowman, Elmer

namePart: Warren, Fred

text: Birds

text: Food

text: Chickens -- United States

text: On cover: a decided first-night hit with the popular comedian Fred Warren.

text: Photograph of Fred Warren on cover.

text: Cover illustration features a band of chickens running across top of cover.

text: words by Elmer Bowman ; music by Al. Johns ; arr. by W.H. Tyers.

title: I've got chicken on the brain

text: Sheet music


title: I cert'nly am living one lucky streak, I'm living twenty-one days to a week [First line of song]

namePart: Williams & Walker (Comedy team)

namePart: Jones, Irving

text: African American men

text: Money

text: Rich people

text: On cover: Williams and Walker's famous compositions.

text: Inset of three small photographs of Williams & Walker on cover.

text: by Irving Jones ; revised by Williams & Walker.

title: I've got money locked up in a vault

text: Sheet music


title: A coon sat in his lonely cell, he couldn't sit outside until he paid his little fine [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkShapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer

namePart: Heelan, Will A.

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

namePart: Davis, Belle

text: Jails

text: Fines (Penalties)

text: Telegrams

text: Inset of photograph of Belle Davis on cover.

text: Cover illustration features a Western Union telegram addressed to Sam Johnson County Jail, Kalamazoo, Mich.  "I've just received your telegram, have wired twenty, come home at once."  Lucy.

text: On cover: the only direct answer to the phenomenal success "I guess I'll have to telegraph my baby" featured by Belle Davis.

text: Missing page 5, continuation of chorus.

text: words by Will A. Heelan ; music by Harry von Tilzer.

title: I've just received a telegram from baby

text: Sheet music


title: Used to have a little ragtime baby, used to think she loved me too [First line of song]

namePart: Howard and Emerson

text: Courtship

text: Desertion

text: Telephone calls

text: Cover illustration features, in top left hand corner, an African American man holding a telephone receiver ; in bottom right hand corner a man and woman are walking arm in arm to the train station.

text: Inset of photograph of Howard and Emerson engraved: "Yours Truly Hello Ma Baby Howard & Emerson"

text: On cover: Howard and Emerson's answer to "Hello ma baby."

text: [by] Howard and Emerson.

title: I've lost ma baby!

title: Because I've lost ma baby, I've lost ma honey [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: The venus of all country girls in our united land, my sweetest little blossom whom of cupid I demand [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899[New York]Hugo V. Schlam

namePart: Nichols, George A.

namePart: Curran, John P.

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Emigration & immigration

text: New York (State)

text: New York

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: Cover illustration features young woman playing a piano.

text: On cover: a love song sung with great success by John P. Curran of Ward & Curran.

text: Signature of former owner on cover: F.C. Buell [?] February 10 1900.

text: On title page: respectfully dedicated to Miss Rose Melville.

text: Inset of photograph of John P. Curran on cover.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkHugo V. Schlam

namePart: Wilbur, Caryl

namePart: Mansfield, Gertrude

text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: Inset of photographs of Caryl Ward and Gertrude Mansfield on cover.

text: On cover: a love song sung with great success by Caryl Wilbur and Gertrude Mansfield.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: On cover: a love song sung with great success by John P. Curran.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: West, Will

namePart: Melville, Rose

text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: On cover: sung with tremendous success by Will West and Rose Melville in Matthews and Bulger's "By the Sad Sea Waves."

text: Signature of former owner in pencil on top right hand corner of cover: A A Smith.

text: Inset of signed photograph of Will West on cover.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: Fox & Allen

text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: On cover: a love song sung with great success by Fox and Allen.

text: Inset of photograph of Fox and Allen on cover.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: Signed photograph of Rose Melville on cover: Yours sincerely Rose Melville, "Sis Hopkins."

text: On cover: a love song sung with great success by Rose Melville.

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


namePart: O'Hare, Jos.

text: Emigration & immigration

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: Trust

text: Inset of photograph of Master Joe O'Hare on cover.

text: On cover: sung with tremendous success by Master Joe O'Hare, (The Choir Boy.)

text: words and music by Geo. A. Nichols.

title: I've waited, honey, waited long for you

text: Sheet music


title: You'se ma lil' black lamb, you'se ma baby [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Johnson, Alice

text: African American children

text: Lullabies -- United States

text: Cover design features pink flowers on green background with photograph of a woman in bottom left hand corner.

text: On cover: darkey lullaby.

text: Signature of former owner in pen in upper right-hand corner of cover: Leora Lehase [?]

text: Stamp of Frankels Music Des Moines on title page.

text: [Dedicated] To my mother.

text: words and music by Alice Johnson.

title: Jes' ma li'l' black lamb

title: Oh! de sun ama sinkin' over yonder in de wes', he's a pi'ntin' wid his finger to de sky [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: The village bells rang out their melody, their tones had never seemed so sweet and clean [First line of song]

namePart: Hamilton, George

text: Marriage

text: Brides

text: Heather

text: Grooms (Weddings)

text: Death & burial

text: Sunday World Music Album. Supplement to the New York World. Sunday, March 18, 1900.

text: Cover design by Krieghoff, features three cupids tying ribbons together and, butterflies.

text: words by Will A. Heelan ; music by George Hamilton.

title: Just a little spray of heather bells

title: 'Twas just a little spray of heather bells [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Out in the flow'r laden country far from the world and its strife [First line of song]

namePart: Kennett, Karl

namePart: Udall, Lyn

text: Death

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Betrothal

text: On cover: companion to the famous "Just as the Sun went down."

text: Cover illustration by Bert Conn [?] features a farm girl with a rake in her hand and a cow and dog by her side looking out over cliffs out to the ocean.

text: words by Karl Kennett ; music by Lyn Udall.

title: Just as the day light was breaking

text: Sheet music


title: They stood alone together, she, a woman pure and fair, and he a man with arms cross'd on his breast [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899The Geo. Jaberg Music Co.

namePart: Litsey, Edwin Carlile (1874-1970)

namePart: Johnston, Sam C.H.

text: Unrequited love

text: Marriage proposals

text: Rejection (Psychology)

text: words by E. Carl Litsey ; music by Sam C.H. Johnston.

title: Just as the twilight died

text: Sheet music


title: A maiden fair with golden hair, stands by the garden gate [First line of song]

namePart: Harris, Chas. K. (Charles Kassell) (1864-1930)

namePart: Clauder, Jos. (Joseph) (1853-1913)

namePart: Rosa, Margaret

text: Death

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Love songs

text: Small photograph of Charles K. Harris on title page.

text: Cover design by Raphael Bassett [?]  features young woman holding flowers.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Margaret Rosa.

text: Photograph of Margaret Rosa in lower right-hand corner of cover.

text: words and music by Chas. K. Harris ; arr. by Jos. Clauder.

title: Just tell her that I loved her too

text: Sheet music


namePart: Gardner, Jessie

text: Death

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Love songs

text: On cover: sung with great success by Jessie Gardner.

text: Photograph of Jessie Gardner in lower right-hand corner of cover.

text: Signature of former owner in pencil in top right-hand corner of cover: Miss Blanche Frank[?]

text: Stamped on title page: Lord & Co., The Modern Piano Dealers, Lawrence, Mass.

title: Just tell her that I loved her too

text: Sheet music


title: Since I've wandered away from that beautiful land [First line of song]

originInfo:
1899

      Brooklyn, NY

    Charles Coleman

namePart: Chambers, Augusta Howe

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Arrivals & departures

text: Ireland

text: Kilkenny (Ireland)

text: Cover illustration features a woman and dog on the shore watching a man in a small rowboat.

text: Dedicated to Miss Ellen Ada Hannington of Limrick Ireland.

text: words and music by Augusta Howe Chambers.

title: Kate of Kilkenny

title: She's a fair Irish flower with love for her dower [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: By Killarney's lakes and fells, em'rald isles and winding bays [First line of song]

originInfo:
1899

      Boston

    F. Trifet

namePart: Balfe, M. W.--(Michael William) (1808-1870)

text: Lakes & ponds

text: Ireland

text: Kerry

text: Killarney

text: Killarney (Kerry, Ireland)

text: Boston Journal of Sheet Music no.196 January 25, 1899.

text: by M.W. Balfe.

title: Killarney

text: Sheet music


title: There's nothing that comes too rich for King Gilhooly [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]Weber Fields & Stromberg

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

text: Deception

text: Romanies

text: zIreland

text: Cover illustration by Starmer; features King on a red throne dressed in a red cape adorned with shamrocks with a green hat holding a sceptor of some kind.

text: On cover: sung with great success by John T. Kelly.

text: words by Edgar Smith ; music by John Stromberg.

title: King Gilhooly

title: At the early age of quarter past six, says I to myself says I [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh once there was a kissing bug much dreaded much dreaded [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkWeber, Fields & Stromberg

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Dailey, Peter F.

text: mosquitoes

text: Cover illustration features many small bugs which look like mosquitoes flying around biting people.

text: On cover: introduced and sung with great success by Peter F. Dailey at Weber & Fields Broadway Music Hall.

text: Signed photograph of Peter F. Dailey on cover.

text: written by Harry B. Smith ; composed by John Stromberg.

title: The kissing bug

title: Buzz I'm with you night and day I spring and sting like anything [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You may sing about your pretty girls with faces fair to see [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899Philadelphia, PaLeo W. Wright; / Globe Music Company

namePart: Wright, Leo W.

namePart: Laurella, Marguerita

text: Beaches

text: New Jersey

text: Atlantic City

text: Interpersonal relations

text: On title page: first sung on Young's Ocean Pier, Atlantic City, N.J., by Mr. Frank Seifert.

text: Signature of former owner in pen on cover: George St. Hoffman.

text: Signed photograph of Marguerita Laurella on cover.

text: words and music by Leo W. Wright.

title: Kittie Moore, or, Song of the gay seashore

title: It was at Atlantic City where I first met charming Kittie [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: I used to know a gal who had a kinky wooly head as black as a raven's wing [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkT.B. Harms & Co.

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

text: African American women

text: Suicide

text: Hair

text: Cover illustration features an African American woman with a pot of red paint falling on her head.

text: words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Max Dreyfus.

title: The lady with the auburn hair

text: Sheet music


title: All the songs you hear, it seems this year, are of country home [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Dillon, John

namePart: Dillon, Harry

text: Broadway (New York, N.Y.)

text: Country life

text: Sentimentalism

text: Cover illustration features a gentleman sitting in a chair reading a newspaper with his back against a street scene.  Scenes from country life decorate the border.

text: words and music by John & Harry Dillon.

title: A large front room on Broadway

title: "You can have your New Hampshire, and your wildwood, ever dear [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh a big burly nigger by de name of Brown gave a ragtime reception in a dis yere town [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkChas. B. Ward Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Ward, Chas. B.

namePart: Reed, Jr., Dave

text: Hand-to-hand fighting

text: Ragtime music

text: Cover illustration features 8 straight edge razors lined up in a row on a red background.

text: The Sunday World Music Album. Supplement to the New York World. Sunday, Feb. 18, 1900.

text: words by Dave Reed, Jr. ; music by Chas. B. Ward.

title: Leave your razors at the door

text: Sheet music


title: Yes, I 'spec's Ise old an' childish now, when de win' blows down de leaves [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHamilton S. Gordon

namePart: Howard, Minnie F.,--csongwriter

text: Homesickness

text: African Americans

text: xWomen

text: zSouthern States

text: words and music by Minnie F. Howard.

title: Let me go back chillun

text: Sheet music


title: She's the leading lady of a Creole show, is my sweet Lize [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Rogers Bros. Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Rogers, Gus

namePart: Rogers, Max (d. 1932)

namePart: Raymond, Maude

namePart: Carle, Richard (1871-1941)

text: Creoles

text: African American women entertainers

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Photographs of Maude Raymond, Gus Rogers and, Max Rogers on the cover.

text: On cover: sung with tremendous success in The Rogers Bros latest farce "In Wall Street."

text: words and music by Richard Carle.

title: Licorice Lize

title: All of them niggers, cloggers or jiggers, bow down to day lady when to dance she tries [First line of chorus]

title: In Wall Street.  Licorice Lize [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: Within a Sunday school a little child, one day, was list'ning to the teacher [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Chattaway, Thurland (1872-1947)

namePart: Kent, Chas.

text: Death

text: Mothers and daughters

text: African American girls

text: Angels

text: Love, Maternal

text: Cover photograph of an African American mother sitting in a chair looking dowan at her little girl sitting on a rug.

text: Inset of small photograph of Chas. Kent? on cover.

text: On cover: sung nightly with great success by Chas. Kent, of Primrose and Dockstader's Minstrels.

text: by Thurland Chattaway.

title: Little black me

title: Mama are there any angels black like me [First line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


text: Death

text: Mothers and daughters

text: African American girls

text: Angels

text: Love, Maternal

text: by Thurland Chattaway.

title: Little black me

text: Sheet music


originInfo: [c1899] /1914New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co. / Richmond-Robbins Inc.

text: Death

text: Mothers and daughters

text: African American girls

text: Angels

text: Love, Maternal

text: by Thurland Chattaway.

title: Little black me

text: Sheet music


title: There were two little dickey-birds up in a tree [First line of song]

namePart: Stewart, Grant (1866-1929)

namePart: Englander, Ludwig (1853-1914)

namePart: Warren, Margaret

text: Jealousy

text: Love

text: Birds

text: Behavior

text: Photograph of Margaret Warren by Schloss on cover.

text: Cover illustration by Kera features yellow background with 10 dickey birds placed in different areas of cover.

text: Musical suppelement to the New York Journal and Advertiser, June 4, [18]99.

text: On cover: as sung by Margaret Warren in "In Gay Paree."

text: words by Grant Stewart ; music by Ludwig Englander.

title: The little dickey-birds

title: In Gay Paree.  Little Dickey Birds [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: The Ameer.  Little poster maid [uniform title]

namePart: Ranken, Frederic

namePart: Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)

text: Characters and characteristics

authority: lcgft

text: Theatrical posters

text: Flirting

text: Signature of former owner in pen in middle of cover: Bert B. Barry.

text: On cover: vocal selections from The Ameer the new comic opera success in three acts.  As produced by the Frank Daniels Opera Company at Wallack's Theatre New York.

text: lyrics by Frederic Ranken ; music by Victor Herbert.

title: The little poster maid

title: Side by side on a wall displayed they posed, so the story ran [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Memories of my little one, who's left this world of care [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Indianapolis, Ind.Wulschner & Son

namePart: Ward, Harry

namePart: Burtch, Roy L.

text: Death

text: Grief -- 1800-1899

text: Sadness

text: Fathers

text: On cover: respectfully dedicated to Miss Shannon and Mr. Hansel of the Grand Opera House Stock Co.

text: Cover includes photograph of a mother, father, and child in nightgown kneeling in front of her mother.

text: words by Harry Ward ; music by Roy L. Burtch.

title: The little room where baby used to sleep

title: I am sitting by the fire in my quiet little home, a wearied of the trials of the day [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Sweet little rose in the garden of love, faithful to you will I be [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Brooklyn, NYCharles Coleman

namePart: Huether, Joseph J.

namePart: Karl, J.W.

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Courtship

text: On title page: inscrib[ed] to Miss Rose Marie Fontaine of Brooklyn, N.Y.

text: words and music by Joseph J. Huether ; arr. by J.W. Karl.

title: Little rose in the garden of love

title: A lad once met a maiden sweet beneath the woodland firs [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Rub-i-dub-i-dub on the side of the tub, he'd play their music daily [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899[New York]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Francis, W. T. (William T.)

text: Children playing with toys -- United States

text: Toy soldiers

text: On title page: to my friend Mr. Jack Raffael.

text: words and music by W.T. Francis.

title: The little tin soldier army

title: An army there'd been, made entirely of tin, byt thro' time and neglect had been scattered [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: She's de cutest gal in all dis world I know [First line of chorus]

namePart: Saint Felix Sisters

namePart: Moulton, Evelyn

text: African American men

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Desertion

text: Theft

text: Photograph on cover of "The famous 3 St. Felix Sisters with Culhane, Chace and Weston's Minstrels."

text: words and music by Maud Evelyn Moulton.

title: Little yaller Lou

title: I fell right dead in love wid de sweetest little dove, little Lulu Snow from Tennessee [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: I wish I was dead, de day dat I wed [First line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkConsolidated Music Publishers Association

namePart: Nattes, E.

text: Jealousy

text: Marriage

text: Flirting

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Photograph by Thors of an unidentified woman on cover.

text: On cover: darkies separation ragtime song and chorus.

text: words and music by E. Nattes.

title: Liza, Liza, I'll mesmerize her

title: Dar's gwine to be now a separation, between mah gal an' I [First line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: They parted as all lovers part, a kiss, a fond good bye [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoM. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Moreland, Chas.

namePart: Marshall, Edna Bassett

namePart: Standish, Joseph W.

text: Adultery

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Desertion

text: Photograph of Edna Bassett Marshall on cover.

text: On cover: sung with great success by Edna Bassett Marshall.

text: words by Jos. W. Standish ;  music by Chas. Moreland.

title: A long time ago

text: Sheet music


title: I'll tell you about some trouble I had with a handsome yaller coon [First line of song]

originInfo: 1899New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Larkins, John

namePart: Wilson

namePart: Deas

text: African American men

text: Adultery

text: Barbers

text: Gambling

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: words by Deas and Wilson, music by John Larkins ; arr. by Wm. H. Tyers.

title: Look here Mr. Yaller Man

text: Sheet music


title: Run home you little pickaninies; here comes the hoodoo,doo doo man [First line of chorus]

text: Bedtime

text: African American children

text: Voodooism

text: Myths

text: Professional copy.

text: by Geo Evans.

title: Look out for the hoodoo-doo-doo man

title: Behind the hill the sun am gently falling, it's time dat pickaninies was in bed [First line of song]

text: Sheet music