title: She's waiting over yonder with the angels by the throne. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoF.E. Kellogg and H.L. Brown ; / National Music Co.

namePart: Kellogg, Frank E. (Frank Eugene) (1854-)

namePart: Brown, H. Lloyd

text: Bridges

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Nature

text: Widowers

text: Cover includes thumbnail photographs of H. Lloyd Brown and Frank E. Kellogg.

text: Summary:  A man recalls his childhood farm and his childhood love, Mary, whom he had always loved; the recollection is from 60 years ago: Mary had died soon after the wedding, but he still thinks of her.

text: Cover design includes photograph of a wooden bridge over a river in a wooded area.

text: words by Frank E. Kellogg ; music by H. Lloyd Brown.

title: When Mary whispered "yes"

title: 'Twas down upon the dear old farm, beside a sparkling rill. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

keyDate: yes

title: Pansies for thoughts! [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Chicago ; New YorkWindsor Music Co.

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Northern Quartette

type: corporate

namePart: Quinn, Charles

type: personal

usage: primary

namePart: Craig, Adam

type: topic

authority: lctgm

text: Love

text: Pansies

type: content

text: Cover design includes drawing of pansies and a photograph of an unidentified man.

text: On cover:  Sung with great success by the great Northern Quartette.

text: Summary:  The narrator likens his love to pansies; after a separation, when pansies bloom again, he will be together with his love again.

type: statement of responsibility

text: words by Adam Graig ; music by Chas. Quinn.

title: When pansies bloom again

supplied: no

title: 'Twas in the month of June, when the flow'rs were all in bloom. [first line of song]

authority: lcsh

text: Sheet music

rights: Can be used inside free NYPL exhibition catalogs and in free NYPL brochures

rights: Can be used in advertising for NYPL exhibitions, on catalog covers, in press kits, or fundraising activities

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collectionTitle: American popular songs.


title: Susan Thompson went to see a colored show one night. [first line of song]

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

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

authority: naf

namePart: Raymond, Lizzie B.

text: African American women singers

text: Humorous songs

text: On cover:  An instantaneous & most emphatic hit ... sung with great success by Lizzie B. Raymond.  Cover includes photograph of Lizzie B. Raymond.

text: Summary:  Susan Thompson, apparently an African American woman, goes to see a show, when another African American suggests she sing; she thinks she does well, but others realize that her voice is so bad it's entertaining.

text: words and music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: When Susan Thompson tries to reach high C

title: Ho, ho, ho, ho! You ought to hear her sing. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


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

text: African American women singers

text: Humorous songs

text: On cover:  Sung in New York and London by Lizzie B. Raymond.  Cover includes photograph of Lizze B. Raymond.

text: Published as the musical suppelement to the New York Journal and Advertiser. Oct. 22, 1899.

text: Cover design includes drawing of a woman singing while holding music.

text: words and music by Harry Von Tilzer.

text: Sheet music


title: When the stars are out, and when from care I'm free. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Valentine Huber

namePart: Huber, Valentine

text: Patriotism -- United States

text: Farewells

type: temporal

text: Published as the musical supplement of the Sunday Examiner.

text: On cover:  As sung by Charlotte Beckwith at the Tivoli.  Cover includes photo by Vaughan and Keith of Charlotte Beckwith in costume.

text: Summary:  A farewell song in which the narrator rhetorically says farewell to his love while pledging fealty to the United States of America.

text: words and music by Valentine Huber.

title: When the stars are out

title: Beneath a distant tropic sky, for thee, my dearest love I sigh. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: When you come back to Georgia you will find me true. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Herrmann, George

text: Death

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Reminiscing

text: Dedicaton on cover:  Dedicated to the Atlanta Consitution.

text: Summary:  An elderly woman sits, still in love with the man who deserted her years ago, to whom she promised to remain faithful; she doesn't know that he died in England, so she keeps on saying her prayers for him.

text: Cover design shows drawing of a man with his finger to his mouth, and a woman looking away from him.

text: words and music by George Herrmann.

title: When you come back to Georgia

title: There's a dear old gray-haired lady, with tear dimmed eyes. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


field: copyrightDate

originInfo: 18991900New YorkChas. B. Ward Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Simpson, Cheridah

namePart: Krieghoff, William G.

text: Death

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Reminiscing

text: On cover:  Cheridah Simpson's latest success.  Cover includes photograph of Cheridah Simpson.

text: Published as the Sunday World Music Album; supplement to the New York World. Sunday, May 20, 1900.

text: words and music by George Herrmann.

title: When you come back to Georgia

text: Sheet music


title: I sit and dream alone of you. [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899ChicagoVictor Kremer

namePart: Solman, Alfred (1868-1937)

namePart: Allen, John

namePart: D'arville, Camille (1863-1932)

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Love

text: Remorse

text: On cover:  Sung with great sucess by the queen of comic opera, Camille D'arville.  Cover includes photograph of Camille D'arville.

text: For soprano or tenor (key of G major).

text: Summary:  The narrator recalls a love that ended because "I learned to love too late."

text: words by John Allen ; music by Alfred Solman.

title: When you learn to love too late

title: Dear heart, I learned to love too late alas! [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Now the sunbeams kiss the hill tops and the birds sing just as gay. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New York ; ChicagoWilliam C. Dunn & Co; / Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

namePart: Da Costa, Fanny

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Fanny Da Costa.

text: Summary:  The narrator longs for his mother whom he last saw years ago.

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

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

title: I am thinking of my mother, I am longing for the day when we will meet to part no more. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Hoey, May

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Little May Hoey.

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music

publisher: William C. Dunn & Co; / Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer


namePart: Sylvester, Nellie

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Nellie Sylvester.

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music


namePart: Allen, Flossie

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Flossie Allen..

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music


namePart: Hardisty, Dayse

namePart: Davenport, Dot

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Dot Davenport.

text: Signature of former owners on cover at top:  Mrs. Gill & J. Lina, Aug. 9, 1900 - Dayse Hardisty.

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music


namePart: Lieb, Lora

namePart: Boynton, Helen

namePart: Christopher, N. C.

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of Lora Lieb.

text: Signatures of former owners on cover at top:  N.C. Christopher, Helen Boynton.

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkWilliam C. Dunn & Co.

namePart: Manhattan Comedy Four

namePart: Gade, J. F.

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers and sons

text: Signature of former owner on cover at top: J.F. Gade, July [remainder of date cut off].

text: Cover design includes drawing of magnolia blossoms, and a photograph of the Manhattan Comedy Four.

title: Where the sweet magnolias bloom

text: Sheet music


title: The one man band. [alternative title]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Lind, W. Murdoch

text: Cakewalk (Dance)

text: African American guitarists

authority: aat

text: guitars

text: African Americans -- Social life -- 1890-1899

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: Cover design includes caricature of an African American man playing a guitar while 5 African American couples are in the background marching or doing a cakewalk.

text: Includes 20 measure for piano only prior to vocal part.

text: Descriptive subtitle and explanation on cover:  A characteristic march which can be used effectively as a two-step, polka or cake-walk.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language and imagery, the narrator describes Rufus Blossom, an African American man who is known to be an excellent guitar player; he walks miles to play at parties, enabling them to have a festive time.

text: by Kerry Mills.

title: Whistling Rufus, or, The one man band

title: Don't make no blunder you couldn't lose him. [first line of chorus]

title: Down in de south whar de sly ole possum hides in de sycamore tree. [first line of song]

title: The one man band. [alternative title]

text: Sheet music


title: Way down south where the sly old possum hides in the sycamore tree. [first line of song]

originInfo: [c1899] / 1952New YorkF.A. Mills ; Paull-Pioneer Music Co.

namePart: Cooley, Lee

namePart: Smith, Sydney

text: African American men

text: African American musicians

text: Summary:  The narrator describes Rufus Blossom, an African American man who is known to be an excellent guitar player; he walks miles to play at parties, enabling them to have a festive time; he's still remembered to this day.

text: Cover design by Barbelle includes drawing of an elderly African American man leaning on a wooden fence, while he envisions a cotton plantation with African Americans tending to the field.

text: words by Lee Cooley and Sydney Smith ; music by Kerry Mills.

title: Whistling Rufus

title: Don't make no blunder, you couldn't lose him. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby. Mother sings, cradle swings, while the moon hangeth low. [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899Springfield, Mass.J.H. Warner; Uncle Sam Shoemakers

namePart: Hamlin, Bertha L.

text: Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)

text: Lullabies -- United States

text: Shoes

type: geographic

text: United States

text: Waltzes

text: Sheet music sold under the auspices of Uncle Sam Shoemakers.

text: Cover design includes drawing of Uncle Sam happily looking at a young man presenting a shoe, while Liberty looks on, holding a wreath.

text: Summary:  A lullaby in which a whippoorwill keeps watch over baby.

text: words and music by Bertha L. Hamlin.

title: Whip-poor-will lullaby

text: Sheet music


title: Why did you ever leave me? You're silent while I grieve. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Cohn, Paul

namePart: Hamill, Fred J.

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Love

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Summary:  Years ago when we pledged love to each other, all was happy; I've often wondered why did you leave me years ago for I still love you.

text: Cover design includes a photograph of an unidentified man.

text: words by Fred. J. Hamill ; music by Paul Cohn.

title: Why

title: The years have passed since you and I, dear, together wandered hand in hand. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Why did they sell Killarney, all for the sake of gold. [first line of chorus]

originInfo:
1899

      New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]

    M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Dillon, John

namePart: Dillon, Harry

namePart: Heald, H. D.

text: Waltzes

text: Killarney (Kerry, Ireland)

text: Leane, Lough (Ireland)

text: Ross Castle (Killarney)

text: Cover design includes reproduction of a painting showing the ruins of Ross Castle overlooking the lake Lough Leane.

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover:  sentimental song & chorus.

text: Summary:  The narrator questions why are parts of Killarney being sold when so much of town history belongs to the town.

text: words and music by John & Harry Dillon.

title: Why did they sell Killarney

title: Buy Killarney's lakes so fair, they sing this song to the millionaire. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


originInfo:
1899

      New York ; [etc.]

    M. Witmark & Sons

text: Waltzes

text: Killarney (Kerry, Ireland)

text: Leane, Lough (Ireland)

text: Ross Castle (Killarney)

text: words by Harry Dillon, music by John Dillon.

title: Why did they sell Killarney

text: Sheet music


title: I love you, because you eyes are blue. [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899Cincinnati ; New York ; [etc.]The John Church Company

namePart: Clement, Clay

namePart: Hesselberg, Edouard (1870-1935)

namePart: Hesselberg, Lena Shackelford

text: Love songs

text: Summary:  a love song; the narrator adores all aspects of his beloved.

text: Version for high voice in E major.

text: Dedication on cover at top center:  Dedicated by permission to Clay Clement of the "New Dominion."

text: words by Lena Shackelford Hesselberg ; music by Edouard Hesselberg.

title: Why I love you

text: Sheet music


title: Wing Lee bought a clock the other day. [first line of song]

originInfo: 18991900New YorkMyll Bros.

namePart: Trahern, Al

namePart: Mathews and Bulger

text: African Americans

text: Chinese Americans

text: Musicals

text: Ragtime music

text: Dancing

text: United States

text: On cover:  Sung by Mathews and Bulger in By the sad sea waves.  Cover includes a photograph of Mathews and Bulger in costume.

text: Published as the supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. Sunday, Sept. 2, 1900, pp. 5-8.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, the narrator tells of Wing Lee who bought a clock that rang in ragtime; because of this, African Americans broke into his store in order to dance; furious, Wing Lee called the police, but the officer was also an African American who began to dance, leaving Wing Lee frustrated.

text: words and music by Al. Trahern.

title: Wing Lee's rag-time clock

title: By the sad sea waves. Wing Lee's rag-time clock. [uniform title]

title: No likee ragtime, no likee coon, all lookee samee to me. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: With you beside me, what need I care. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 18991901ChicagoSol. Bloom

namePart: Morse, Theodore F. (1873-1924)

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

namePart: Irving, Bob

namePart: Penn, William H.

namePart: Delaro, Hattie

text: Love songs

text: Printed as the music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. Sunday, May 26, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: On cover:  Sung by Hattie Delaro.  Cover design includes photograph of Hattie Delaro.

text: Cover design includes drawing of a woman listening to an elongated sea shell.

text: Composer attribution:  on cover, music is credited to Theodore F. Morse; on caption music is credited bo Bob Irving, arranged by Wm. H. Penn.

text: Summary:  The narrator comments that aspects of life may cause doubt, but with love, things are much better.

text: words by Raymond A. Browne ; music by Theodore F. Morse.

title: With you beside me

title: The skies of life are often clouded, the roads of fate are hard to tread. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899ChicagoSol. Bloom

namePart: Vance, Clarice

text: Love songs

text: On cover:  Sung with great success by Clarice Vance. Cover includes photograph of Clarice Vance.

text: Printed as the music supplement of the Los Angeles Sunday Herald

title: With you beside me

text: Sheet music


text: Love songs

title: With you beside me

text: Sheet music


title: The world would be a desert drear to me. [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899Kansas CityCarl Hoffman

namePart: Hollenback, Ben T.

namePart: Fitzhugh, Earl

text: Love songs

text: On cover: Sung with great success by the eminent dramatic tenor Ben T. Hollenback.

text: For low voice (key of F major).

text: Cover design includes drawings of flowers and flying birds.

text: Summary:  The world would not be as good a place without you; it is a better place with you.

text: words by Earl Fitzhugh ; music by Neil Moret.

title: Without thee

text: Sheet music


title: Won't you take me back to Dixie? [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Rosey, Geo. (George)

namePart: Marks, Edward B. (Edward Bennett) (1865-1945)

namePart: Falke, Charles

text: Steamboats

text: American

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: African American men

text: Pathos

text: Cover design includes drawing of a steamboat with passengers near a shore landing, with onlookers.

text: Summary:  At a riverboat landing in New York, a young white man thinks he recognizes an elderly African American.  The elderly African American (named Ned) tells the young man he was his father's slave; he asks the white man how is his (Ned's) family which still live on the plantation, and expresses the desire to return to Dixie; as they speak, onlookers cry; the white man says that everyone is ok, and that his father would be delighted to have Ned return.

text: Cover includes photograph of Charles Falke.

text: words by Gussie L. Davis ; music by Edw. B. Marks and Geo. Rosey.

title: Won't you take me back to Dixie

title: At a New York steamboat landing, sat a darkey, old and gray. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Franklin, Irene

text: Steamboats

text: American

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: African American men

text: Pathos

text: Cover includes photograph of Irene Franklin with the caption: the petite vocalist, Irene Franklin.

title: Won't you take me back to Dixie

text: Sheet music


title: The words that made you mine

namePart: Griffith

namePart: Stults, R. M.

text: Marriage proposals

text: Love songs

text: Summary:  The narrator recalls the day when he exchanged vows with his beloved; all nature seemed to recognize the special day it was.

text: Cover design by Griffith includes a woman hanging a sign (that is the title of the song) with flowers nearby.

text: Printed as a supplement to the Philadelphia Times. Sunday, Nov. 4th, 1900.

text: words and music by R.M. Stutts.

title: The words that made you mine

text: Sheet music


title: I used to love a darkey by the christian name of Sam. [first line of song]

namePart: Herrmann, George

namePart: Ward, Chas. B.

namePart: Dupre, Janet

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Humorous songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, the narrator, an African American woman, describes meeting Sam and going for a date; she entrusts money to Sam, but he runs away and leaves her penniless.

text: Cover includes photograph of Janet Dupre with the caption: Introduced by Janet Dupre.

text: Dealer's stamp on p. 3: E. Rueffer, music publisher, importer of and dealer in musical merchandise, no. 109 First Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, New York.

text: words by George Herrmann ; music by Chas. B. Ward.

title: Wow, wow, wow, I ain't got no friends or family now

title: I ain't got no friends or family now wow, wow, wow, wow. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You "remember'd the Maine!" and your well-train'd "Yankee pigs" [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899PhiladelphiaBrint. G. Allen

namePart: Schley, Winfield Scott (1839-1911)

namePart: Shafter, William Rufus (1835-1906)

namePart: Allen, Brint G.

namePart: Merritt, Wesley (1834-1910)

text: Spanish-American War, 1898

text: Flags

text: American

text: Maine (Battleship)

text: Note near caption title:  The words of this piece were suggested by the many references to Americans by Gen. Weyler and several Spanish journals as "Yankee pigs."

text: Cover includes drawing of an American flag.

text: Summary:  Despizes the enemy and congratulates the American forces that won the Spanish-American war.

text: words and music by Brint. G. Allen.

title: Yankee pigs" and now they "Remembered the Maine"

title: Now, if you want to scare a "Donk" so bad he'll leave his meal. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You ain't changed a bit from what you used to be. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Horwitz, Charles (1864-1938)

namePart: Bennett & Rich

text: Marriage

text: Anniversaries

text: Reminiscing

text: On cover:  Introduced with great success by the famous song illustrators Bennett & Rich.  Cover includes a photograph of Bennett and Rich.

text: Subtitle on cover:  A tale of Indiana.

text: Summary:  On their 40th wedding anniversary, a couple reminisce on how they were and how they still love each other now.

text: words by Chas. Horwitz ; music by Fred. V. Bowers.

title: We've lived in Indiana going on forty years just you and me. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You aint' de man a dat I thought you was. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkW.B. Gray

namePart: Sully, Lew

namePart: Dockstader, Lew. (1856-1924)

text: African American men

text: African American women

text: Quarreling

text: Finance, Personal

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover and below caption title:  Negro song and chorus.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, the narrator, an African American woman, describes herself as gentle except when she loses her temper; an example was when her husband married her and she discovered that he had no money; she told him to go away.

text: On cover:  Lew. Dockstader's latest big hit.  Cover includes photograph of Lew. Dockstader.

text: words and music by Lew. Sully.

title: You ain't the man I thought you was

title: I'm as gentle and as loving as can be. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You ask me if I love you, there's no need to tell. [first line of song]

originInfo: New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Gonzalez-Witt, Margaret

namePart: Witt, Max S.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover:  Refined love ballad.

text: Cover design includes a floral pattern.

text: Summary:  A love song in which the narrator expresses characteristics of love.

text: words by Margaret Gonzalez-Witt ; music by Max S. Witt

title: You are so dear to me

title: When you are near my heart is glad. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You are the only girl I'll ever care about. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkRogers Bros. Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Parr, John

text: Waltzes

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Love stories

text: Published as the musical supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1899.

text: On cover:  sung by John Parr with Rogers Brothers in Wall St. at Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre.  Cover includes photograph of John Parr.

text: Summary:  A boy wants a girl to be his girlfriend, but she refuses; after time passes she sees the boy again but now with another woman, so she's upset and realizes that she loved him; eventually she finds out that the other woman was his cousin and she can marry him after all.

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

title: In a town not far from here, lived a maiden sweet and dear. [first line of song]

title: Wall St. You are the only girl I'll ever care about. [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: You can take your trunk and go to Harlem. [first line of chorus]

originInfo:
1899

      New York

    T.B. Harms & Co.

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

text: African Americans

text: Jealousy

text: Quarreling

text: Cover design includes drawing of an African American man and woman in a room; the man has a trunk on his shoulders, and the woman is pointing accusingly at the door.

text: Summary:  A neighbor overhears the African American couple next door quarreling: she tells him he must leave because she found a love letter in his coat written to another woman.

text: words and music by Joseph Hart.

title: The other night there was a fight in the room right next to me. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Well-a you can't be my baby any more. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

text: African Americans

text: Blackface entertainers

text: Humorous songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Desertion

text: Descriptive subtitle below caption title:  A common occurence.

text: Cover design includes photograph of an unidentified man in blackface.

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover:  A Negro plaintidity.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, the narrator describes Amanda Snow, a woman who left him because he had no money; Amanda went with another man but left him after he spent all his money on her.

text: by Lew Sully.

title: You can't be my baby any more

title: There's a gal perhaps you know, she's called Miss Mandy Snow. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You can't forget the old love, if that old love was true. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899BostonChas. Shackford

namePart: Fisher, E. S.

namePart: Shackford, Chas.

namePart: Terry, John S.

text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Cover design with floral pattern by E. S. Fisher.

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover:  A charming story ballad with waltz chorus.

text: On cover:  Sung by John S. Terry.  Cover includes photograph of John S. Terry.

text: Summary:  While walking, a man encounters a woman who tells him not to forget his old love; he recalls his childhood and earlier days when he loved someone who was his true love.

text: Poor condition.

text: words and music by Chas. Shackford.

title: You can't forget the old love

title: I wandered one ev'ning alone by the mill. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Warren, Gertrude

text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: On cover:  Sung by Gertrude Warren.  Cover includes photograph of Gertrude Warren.

text: words and music by Chas. Shackford.

title: You can't forget the old love

text: Sheet music


title: You got to play rag time if you want to belong. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Raymond, Maude

text: Bagpipes

text: Racism

text: African Americans

text: Ragtime music

text: On cover:  Sung with enormous success by the clever comedienne Maude Raymond of Rogers Bros' "A reign of error" company, direction of Klaw & Erlanger.  Cover includes photograph of Maude Raymond.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, describes story where Ephraim Johnson, an African American man, attends a party for white people, but is refused entry because he won't play ragtime music on his bagpipes; he is kicked out and thrown into the gutter but still plays on his bagpipes; the next day, other African Americans get bagpipes and play outisde of Johnson's house; upon hearing them, he agrees that it was right for him to have been thrown out of the party.

text: Cover design includes caricatures of two African American men, one dressed in kilts like a Scotsman and carrying bagpipes, and another dressed in a tuxedo.

text: words by Jean C. Havez ; music by A.B. Sloane.

title: You got to play rag-time

title: I'm goin' to tell you 'bout a masquerade, dat happened in Rough House hall. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: When Jean was but a tender child, a boy of five or six. [first line of song]

namePart: Furst, William (1852-1917)

namePart: Goodwin, J. Cheever (John Cheever) (1850-1912)

namePart: Hall, Josephine

text: Men

text: Waltzes

text: Flirting

text: Musicals

text: Conduct of life

text: Cover design includes drawing of an elegantly dressed man and woman.

text: On cover:  As sung by Miss Josephine Hall.  Cover includes photograph of Josephine Hall with reproduction of her signature.

text: Dedication on cover at top:  Dedicated to Miss Josephine Hall.

text: Summary:  As a young boy Jean would misbehave and steal candies from the kitchen; his mother told him not to touch; when he was older his mother caught him kissing the cook and again admonished him not to touch; now he is older, still likes sweets; the narrator recalls that Jean tried to misbehave with her so she had to tell him not to touch.

text: words by J. Cheever Goodwin ; music by William Furst.

title: You must not touch

title: Ah! This is too much, you must not touch, hands off! at once I say. [first line of chorus]

title: Girl from Maxim's. You must not touch. [uniform title]

text: Sheet music


title: You had a dream, well, I had one too. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Kansas CityChas. N. Daniels ; Western Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Daniels, Charles N. (Charles Neil) (1878-1943)

namePart: Rice, Seymour

namePart: Brown, Albert H.

namePart: Butler, Etta

text: Death

text: Life cycle, Human

text: Betrothal

text: Dreams

text: Waltzes

text: Cover design includes a floral pattern.

text: Dealer's stamp on cover at bottom right:  The Zeno Mauvais Music Co. [Oakland, California].

text: On cover:  As sung by Miss Etta Butler.  Cover includes photograph of Etta Butler.

text: Summary:  Two children are playing; the boy challenges the girl to tell her dream; as adults, Tom and Mary tell each other their dreams and choose to be married; later, Tom is sad since Mary has died, but he still remembers them telling each other their dreams from childhood.

text: words by Seymour Rice and Albert H. Brown ; music by Chas. N. Daniels.

title: You tell me your dream, I'll tell you mine

title: Two little children one morning, after their breakfast was o'er. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1899New YorkChas. N. Daniels ; Remick Music Corporation

text: Children

text: Death

text: Life cycle, Human

text: Betrothal

text: Dreams

text: Waltzes

text: Cover design includes reproduction of a drawing showing two children playing with a bird bath.

text: On cover:  Recorded by the Mills Bros. Decca record no. 2285.

type: ownership

text: Gift of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., [1974].

text: Sheet music


title: All my affection for you am gone, no more I'll listen to your old con. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Pritzkow, Louis W.

namePart: Morrell & Evans

text: Quarreling

text: Humorous songs

text: African Americans

text: Domestic life

text: Dedication above caption title:  Dedicated to Morrell and Evans.

text: Dedication on cover:  Respectfull dedicated to and sung by Worrell & Evans [sic; Morrell & Evans].

text: Summary:

text: Louis W. Pritzkow; Worrell & Evans.

text: words and music by Louis W. Pritzkow.

title: You never was a friend to me

title: A lazy coon and his dark skin'd wife, done had a great big row. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You told me you had money in the bank. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Mathews and Bulger

text: Quarreling

text: Humorous songs

text: Musicals

text: Finance, Personal

text: African Americans

text: Domestic life

text: On cover:  Maude Raymond's great coon hit ... as sung with great success in the Rogers Bros. latest farce "In Wall Street" by John J. McNally, management of Klaw & Erlanger.  Cover includes photograph of Mayde Raymond.

text: Summary:  The narrator, an African American woman, scolds her husband for spending so much money she'll have to live with her parents; he lied to her when he said he had money in the bank; the husband resolves to play piccolo in a band - the band is successful and money is thrown into the horns of the instruments, but since a piccolo is small, the husband did not receive much.

text: words and music by Mathews and Bulger.

title: You told me you had money in the bank

title: Mister Gideon Strong, you've treated me wrong. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You'll have to transfer, transfer up or town. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkFeist & Frankenthaler

namePart: Parker, Frank

namePart: Thornton, Bonnie

text: Evictions

text: Trolley cars

text: Cable cars (Streetcars)

text: Transportation

text: New York (State)

text: New York

text: Humorous songs

text: Cover design by Frank Parker includes drawing of a woman getting off a streetcar as the conductor offers her a ticket.

text: On cover:  Composed expressly for the New York Sunday World.  Published as the supplement to the New York World, Sunday Oct. 22, 1899, in the World Album of ten great songs. Part 8.

text: Descriptive subtitle below caption title:  A song of the day.

text: Lacking credit for words; Below caption title:  Theme by Leo Feist.

text: On cover:  Sung with great success by Miss Bonnie Thornton.  Cover includes photograph of Bonnie Thornton.

text: Summary:  The narrator mentions earlier times when people rode with horse cars; today everyone uses the trolley cars; a woman got on a car, trying to look her best and finally found a seat, only to have the conductor tell her to transfer; the conductor left his job and got a job as a janitor; having to evict a family, he used the same language as on a trolley and told them to transfer.

text: words by Leo Feist ; music by Abe Holzmann.

title: You'll have to transfer

title: We can all look back with laughter now, in this inventive age. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Come hither, little daughter, mine, and sit upon my knee. [first line of song]

namePart: Simpson, Alfred L.

namePart: Bingham, Charles D.

namePart: Maxwell, Jos. B.

text: Death

text: Marriage

text: Fathers and daughters

text: Rings

text: Waltzes

text: Dying declarations

text: Pathos

text: Cover design includes a large ring printed in gold with a floral pattern in the background.

text: Cover design includes thumbnail photograph of Charles D. Bingham.

text: On cover:  Sung by Maxwell and Simpson, kings of illustrated songs.  Exclusive illustrating rights reserved for Maxwell & Simpson.  Cover includes thumbnail photographs of Jos. B. Maxwell and Alfred L. Simpson [name spelled as A. H. Simpson].

text: Summary:  A man speaks to his daughter and gives her a wedding ring; it belongs to her mother whom he loved; when she was passing away, she returned it and asked her husband to give it to their daughter.

text: words and music by Charles D. Bingham.

title: Your mother's wedding ring

title: 'Twas left for you, dear, with love so true, dear. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Watch her and protect her as you would no other. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Chicago ; New YorkWindsor Music Co.

namePart: Marion, David

namePart: Davenport, Minnie

namePart: Starmer

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Pathos

text: Comforting of infants

text: Marital conflict

text: Cover design by Starmer includes a flora pattern.

text: On cover:  Sung with unbounded success by the sweet singer, Miss Minnetta Davenport.  Cover includes photograph of Minetta Davenport.

text: Summary:  The song are the words a wife says  to her husband as she prepares to leave him; she acknowledges they couldn't get along and bears no grudge, but asks that the husband remind the baby of her.

text: words and music by Dave Marion.

title: Your promise keep for baby's sake

title: The vow you made me once has now been broken. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh! you're a saucy baby, to that, you must agree. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Brooklyn, NYChas. W. Held

namePart: Chapman, Lillian M.

namePart: Gro, Josephine

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Quarreling

text: Women

text: United States

text: Dominance (Psychology)

text: Marital conflict

text: Dealer's stamp on cover at center right:  D.M. Williams & Co., 125th St. & 3rd Ave., New York.

text: On cover:  To Josephine Gro.  Cover includes photograph of Josephine Gro.

text: Summary:  The male narrator is in love with a woman, but she is domineering so he threatens to leave, calling her a saucy dame; he goes away but receives a letter from her claiming she'll act better, so resolves to go home; he gives warning to all who encounter a saucy lady.

text: words and music by Lillian M. Chapman.

title: You're a saucy baby

title: I love a girl and she loves me. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You are drifting further from me day by day. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899Kansas CityWestern Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Empire Comedy Four

namePart: Daniels, Charles N. (Charles Neil) (1878-1943)

namePart: Scott, Frederick H.

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Pathos

text: Cover includes thumbnail photographs of the Empire Comedy Four:  Louis A. Hanvey, Will Cooley, Clarence K. Welbur, and William Fuller.

text: On cover:  As sung at the Orpheum by the Empire Comedy Four.

text: Summary:  The narrator acknowledges that the relationship with the loved one has not worked out and that they must separate from one another;.

text: Published as the musical supplement to the Sunday Examiner. [1899]

text: words by Frederick H. Scott ; music by Charles N. Daniels.

title: You're drifting further from me day by day

title: Scarce a year has pass'd, my darling, since we plighted our love troth. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You're just teh same as ever to me, my love will never grow cold. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Finn, Albert F.

namePart: Edge, F. Gilbert

text: Reconciliation

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Published as the supplement to the New York World. Sunday, Dec. 31st, 1899.

text: Cover design by F. Gilbert Edge shows a couple in silhouette engaged in social dancing; remainder of cover includes flora pattern with a seraph reading from paper.

text: Summary:  The narrator tells of a man who is resolved to leave his wife, return their wedding presents, but he wants her to know that he will always love her; she puts back on her wedding ring, and says she will always love him.

text: by Albert F. Finn.

title: You're just the same as ever to me

title: I'll send back the presents and here is the ring that you gave to me long ago. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You're talking ragtime, you're talking dragtime. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Beaumont Sisters

text: African Americans

text: Marriage proposals

text: Humorous songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Ragtime music

text: Cover design by Starmer includes a background floral pattern.

text: Cover includes photograph of the Beaumont Sisters.

text: Summary:  The narrator tells of an African American man who is shy to propose to his girlfriend; he gets drunk but when he tries to propose to her she says he speaks in ragtime; he gets flustered and frustrated but that only makes his language more incomprehensible to his girlfriend.

text: words and music by Beaumont Sisters.

title: You're talking rag-time

title: Jim Johnson loved Miss Nancy Gree, but what do you suppose. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: You're the only one, yes the only one. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkHugo V. Schlam

namePart: Keiser, Robert A.

namePart: Smith, George Totten

namePart: Falk, Eleanor

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Sexual attraction

text: On cover:  As sung with great success by Eleanor Falk.  Cover includes a photograph of Eleanor Falk.

text: Summary:  The narrator reveals that his woman friend is the only one for him.

text: words by George Totten Smith ; music by Robert A. Keiser.

title: You're the only one

title: There's a girl who's as fair as a flower. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Sisters Hawthorne

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Sexual attraction

text: On cover:  As sung with great success by the Sisters Hawthorne.  Cover includes a photograph of the Sisters Hawthorne (Nellie and Lola Hawthorne).

title: You're the only one

text: Sheet music


namePart: Vaughn, Grace

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Sexual attraction

text: On cover:  As sung with great success by Grace Vaughn.  Cover includes photograph of Grace Vaughn.

title: You're the only one

text: Sheet music


title: Susana am ma baby, ma own colored lady. [first line of song]

originInfo: 1899Haverhill, Mass.Hardy Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Homer, James R.

namePart: Miller, Ralph W.

namePart: Armstrong, Joseph

namePart: Fitzgibbon, Dave

text: African American men

text: Outdoor cookery

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Cover design includes caricature of an African American man in the woods, stirring a pot of stew suspended on a cooking tripod; a tent is in the background.

text: Dedication on cover at top center:  To Ralph W. Miller.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, The narrator, an African American man, describes how he got into a fight that alienated his girlfriend Susan who wanted to leave him; the narrator pleads with her to stay professing love;

text: On cover: Sung with great success by Joseph Armstrong.

text: words and music by James R. Homer.

title: You'se the only dumpling in the stew

title: Susan I loves you, indeed I do. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You'se honey to yo' mammy just de same. [first line of chorus]

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

namePart: Bratton, John W. (John Walter) (1867-1947)

namePart: Ford, Walter H.

namePart: Rush, Isadore

namePart: O'Rourke, Lillian

text: African American women

text: Mothers and daughters

text: Desertion

text: On cover:  Miss Isadore Rush's great success with Roland Reed's Co. Cover includes a photograph of Isadore Rush.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, an African American mother living in the southern United States gives words of wisdom to her daughter who is about to marry a man; the couple move north but the man deserts the woman; with a child she comes back to her mother's house who welcomes her and the baby back home.

text: Dedication above caption title:  To Miss Lillian O'Rourke, New York.

text: Descriptive subtitle on cover:  A pathetic ballad and refrain.

text: words by Walter H. Ford ; music by John W. Bratton.

title: You'se honey to yo' mammy just de same

title: Near the everglades of Florida the sun was sinking low. [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Youse nobody's baby but your mamma's. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1899New YorkThe Manhattan Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Thompson, George L. (b. 1875)

namePart: Cruger, Dox.

namePart: Randolph, C.

text: African American infants

text: African American fathers

text: Cover design includes photograph of Geo. L. Thompson.

text: Cover design includes drawing of a scene outside of a house with an inclined roof; an African American woman is holding a steaming pot while an African American infant is crawling on the floor.

text: Summary:  Using stereotyped language, the narrator, an African American father, describes the joy watching his infant son crawl on the floor.

text: Dealer's stamp on rear cover:  D.M. Williams & Co., 125th St. & 3rd Ave., New York.

text: words by C. Randolph ; music by Dox Cruger.

title: You'se nobody's baby but your mamma's

title: Does you ask me who de chil is a-playin' roun' de floor? [first line of song]

text: Sheet music


title: Sweetheart I have grown so lonely. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Corbin, Millie

namePart: Walsh, Celeste K.

namePart: Gillespie, Arthur

namePart: Dillea, Herbert

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to Miss Celeste K Walsh, Chicago Ill.

text: On cover: Photograph of Millie Corbin; [roses]

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: words byArthur Gillespie ; music by Herbert Dillea.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Early, John W.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: On cover: Photograph of John Early ; [roses]

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


namePart: Gladdish, Fred.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: On cover: Photograh of Fred. Gladdish; [roses]

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


namePart: Powers, Louis N.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: On cover: Photograph of Louis N. Powers; [roses]

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: On cover: Blanche Ring; [roses]

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


namePart: Talley, Harry L.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: On cover: Harry Talley; [roses]

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


namePart: Truesdell, Fred.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: Stamp on cover: M. S. Demarest, pianos & music, 1369 Braodway.

text: On cover: Fred. C. Truesdell; [roses]

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

text: Stamp on cover: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Station WABC.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to Miss Celeste K. Walsh, Chicago, Ill.

text: No cover.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


originInfo: [c1900] /1938New York[M. Witmark & Sons]; Jerry Vogel Music Co., Inc.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


originInfo: [c1900] /1940[New York][M. Witmark & Sons]; Edward B. Marks Music Co.

namePart: Furey, Edward A.

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Subtitle: Longing to be near your side.

title: Absence makes the heart grow fonder

text: Sheet music


title: I'm dreaming tonight, love, about you far away. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ;  [etc]Vandersloot Music Co.

namePart: Webster, Howard

namePart: Kerr, G. H.

text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Young man looking at a portrait.

text: words by G.H. Kerr ; music by Howard Webster.

title: After all

title: For I love you my darling, I love you. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Bates, Louisa

text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Louisa Bates.

title: After all

text: Sheet music


text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Long-distance relationships

text: Man-woman relationships

title: After all

text: Sheet music


title: After Oh! After it is too late. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkWillis Woodward & Co.

namePart: Church, Frank

text: Prisoners

text: Reminiscing

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Death & burial

text: words and music by Frank Church.

title: After it is too late

title: A convict sits in prison, condemned to die next day. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: In London city, England, not many years ago. [first line]

originInfo: 1900Bradford, Pa.D.D. Hartsell

namePart: Hartsell, DeForest D.

text: Death

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: On cover: De Forest D. Hartsell.

text: words and music by De Forest D. Hartsell.

title: After the great London theatre

title: After the great London theatre. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: In a mansion in a city, called the home of millionaires. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Winne, Chas.

text: Wealth

text: Moral and ethical aspects

text: Betrothal

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Desertion

text: Dedication: Dedicated to Chas. Winne, N. Y. at who's suggestion this song was written.

text: On cover: Gold coins.

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

title: All for a man who's God was gold

title: All for a man who's God was gold. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Where the weeping willows grow. [first line]

originInfo: 1900ChicagoSol Bloom

namePart: Manley, Julia Marion

namePart: Penn, William H.

namePart: Huttner, Annie

namePart: Harvey, Josephine

text: Graves

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: willow trees and sunset.

text: Dedication: To Annie Huttner, New York City.

text: On cover: Josephine Harvey.

text: words by Julia Marion Manley ; music by Wm. H. Penn.

title: All on account of a dear little girl

title: All on account of a dear little girl. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Bingham, Kittie

text: Graves

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Music suplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. Sunday, Sept. 22, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: On cover: Kittie Bingham.

title: All on account of a dear little girl

text: Sheet music


title: Seated one night in a ballroom. [first line]

namePart: Heath, Ray, Miss

text: Prophecy

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: red flowers.

text: Dedication: Dedicated to our chum's friend Miss Ray Heath, Chicago.

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

title: All things are not what they seem.

title: All things are not what they seem. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Recollections often bring me back to childhood's happy days. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkA.W. Tams

namePart: Burnett, Claude M.

text: Mountains

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Childhood

text: Home

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Girl in the desert mountains.

text: [Music supplement] Sunday, January 20, 1901.

text: words and music by Claude M. Barnett [Burnett].

title: Among the mountains, far away

title: Among the mountains, far away I told my love to you. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: When the stars shine and the daylight is gone. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900[Philadelphia]J.W. Pepper

namePart: Dockstader, C. R. (Charles R.) (1849-1907)

text: Love

text: Fathers and daughters

text: Waltzes

text: Infants

text: Supplement of the Philadelphia Times. Sunday, February 11, 1900.

text: On cover: A baby.

text: Dedication: To Gracie.

text: words and music by C.R. Dockstader.

title: Baby and I

title: Her bright eyes are blue, and her teeth are like pearl. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: We are frivolous, frolicsome bathing girls. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Luders, Gustav (1865-1913)

text: Young women

text: Sunbathing

text: Flirting

text: Musicals

text: The Burgomaster. [musical]

text: words by Frank Pixley ; music by Gustav Luders.

title: The bathing girls

title: We are dainty, dimpled darlings, ev'ry one.

text: Sheet music


title: Through ev'ry ill that may betide, I'll stand forever by your side. [first line]

originInfo: 1900ChicagoCarrie Jacobs-Bond

namePart: Jacobs-Bond, Carrie (1862-1946)

namePart: McGahen, Ben

text: Friendship

text: Waltzes

text: On cover: Ben McGahen; Carrie Jacobs-Bond.

text: Dedication: To a friend.

text: words and music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond.

title: Because I am your friend

title: Because you are my friend, on me you may depend. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Now Earth scarcely holds me since gipsy told me. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkT.B. Harms & Co.

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

namePart: Howard & Emerson

namePart: Steinberg, Maurice J.

text: Fortune telling

text: Gypsy

text: Money

text: United States

text: Prophecy

text: Betrothal

text: Man-woman relationships

text: No cover.

text: by Howard & Emerson, and Maurice J. Steinberg.

title: Because the fortune teller told me

title: Feelin' so blue, downhearted too. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Now, when the pigeons in de roost are cooing side be side. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkW.H. Anstead

text: Bedtime

text: African American children

text: African Americans

text: African American parents

text: [Music supplement] Sunday, April 21, 1901.

text: On cover: Illustration of a rural cottage at night.

text: words and music by Jean C. Havez.

title: Bedtime's near

title: Bedtime's near, bedtime's near. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Come what may, we'll live and love. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkF.A. Mills

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: The Sunday World Music Album. Supplement to the New York World, Mar. 11, 1900.

text: by Kerry Mills.

title: Before the day

title: Before the day, that we two chanced to meet. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: We were boy and girl together. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Ford, Walter H.

namePart: Bratton, John W. (John Walter) (1867-1947)

text: Death

text: Reminiscing

text: Bittersweet

text: Love songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Supplement to the New York Herald, March 29, 1903.

text: words by Walter H. Ford ; music by John W. Bratton.

title: Beneath the evening star

title: Beneath the evening star for you I'm waiting. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: While the wedding bells were chiming, for a youth and maiden fair. [first line]

namePart: Benline

namePart: Leighton, Harry

namePart: Carney

text: On cover: A couple being married in a church.

text: On cover: Harry Leighton.

text: words and music by Benline and Carney

title: Be True to the Band of Gold

title: Bet true to the band of gold, lass. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: She was a simple country lass. [first line]

namePart: Glose, Augusta

namePart: Hobart, George V. (George Vere) (1867-1926)

text: French language

text: Study and teaching

text: Plays on words

text: Humorous songs

text: Flirting

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Augusta Glosé playing piano.

text: words by George V. Hobart and Walter H. Ford ; music by John W. Bratton.

title: Billet doux

title: A billet doux! A billet doux!

text: Sheet music


title: The ballroom was filled with fashion throng. [first line]

originInfo: [c1900] / 1927New YorkShapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer; Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

namePart: Von Tilzer, Harry (1872-1946)

namePart: Barry, Jimmie, Mrs.

text: Wealth

text: Moral and ethical aspects

text: Young women

text: Waltzes

text: Regret

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Mrs. Jimmie Barry.

text: words by Arthur J. Lamb ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

title: A bird in a gilded cage

title: She's only a bird in a gilded cage. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New YorkShapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer; Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

namePart: Redmond, Rita

text: Wealth

text: Moral and ethical aspects

text: Young women

text: Waltzes

text: Regret

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Rita Redmond.

title: A bird in a gilded cage

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New YorkHarry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.

text: On cover: Ann Sothern.

title: A bird in a gilded cage

text: Sheet music


title: One lies down near Appomattox. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Allen, Phyllis (1861-1938)

namePart: Roberts, Oliver

namePart: Roberts, Oliver, Mrs.

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: Dedication on cover: Respectfully dedicated to General and Mrs. Oliver Roberts.

text: Stamp on cover: Lewis' Music Store, Watertown, N. Y.

text: On cover: Phyllis Allen.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

title: The blue and the gray, or, A mother's gift to her country

title: A mother's gift to her country's cause is a story yet untold. [first line]

text: Sheet music


namePart: The Rays

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: The Rays.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: Cain, John J.

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: John J. Cain (Mitchell & Cain).

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: Cavanaugh, James W.

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: James W. Cavanagh.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: De Milt, Gertie

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Gertie De Milt.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: Howe, Gilby

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Gilby Howe.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: R.J. Jose.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: Richards, "Kid"

text: On cover: "Kid" Richards.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

title: mother's gift to her country's cause is a story yet untold. [first line]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Ritter, Frank

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Frank Ritter.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


namePart: Fulton, Carrie

text: Death

text: Mothers and sons

text: United States

text: History

text: Civil War, 1861-1865

text: Soldiers

text: American

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Carrie Fulton.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

text: Sheet music


title: Though you may think she's happy, though she may wear a smile. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Sterling, Andrew B (b. 1874)

namePart: Moore, Raymon

text: Death

text: Weddings

text: Wealth

text: Moral and ethical aspects

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Young lady sitting in the chair.

text: Store sticker on cover: Long's Music Shop 378 D Street, san Bernadino, Calif.

text: words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Raymon Moore.

title: Bound with a golden chain

title: Fifth avenue was crowded on a sunny Easter morn. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: She has fainted. Bring some water. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Thornton, James (1861-1938)

namePart: Rickard, Michael J.

text: Justice

text: Pleading (Begging)

text: Judges

text: Bankers

text: Veterans

text: Jails

text: Courtrooms

text: Pathos

text: Larceny

text: On cover: Two portraits.

text: Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to Mr. Michael J. Rickard, New York.

text: Handwriting on title page: To my esteemed friend AH Head, St. Louis, Feb. 26th '09, James Thornton.

text: words and music by James Thornton.

title: The Bridge of Sighs

title: In the city's crowded courtroom. [first line]

text: Sheet music


text: Justice

text: Pleading (Begging)

text: Judges

text: Bankers

text: Veterans

text: Jails

text: Courtrooms

text: Pathos

text: Larceny

text: words and music by James Thornton.

title: The Bridge of Sighs

text: Sheet music


text: Justice

text: Pleading (Begging)

text: Judges

text: Bankers

text: Veterans

text: Jails

text: Courtrooms

text: Pathos

text: Larceny

text: words and music by James Thornton.

title: The Bridge of Sighs

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New YorkArthur W. Tams

namePart: Nicol, J. E.

namePart: Barnet, R. A. (Robert Ayres) (1850?-1933)

text: African Americans

text: On cover: illustration of a white woman speaking to an African American child.

text: Supplement to the New York World. Sunday, June 10, 1900.

text: [end of the song missing]

text: words by R.A. Barnet ; music by J.E. Nicol.

title: The "Bugaboo man"

title: Now listen little children, I am going to tell you true.

text: Sheet music


title: London town has charms for me all others I'd be scorning. [first line]

originInfo:
1900

      New York ; Chicago; [etc.]

    M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: De Lange, Louis

namePart: Neidlinger, W. H. (William Harold) (1863-1924)

text: London (England)

text: Celebrations

text: Lifestyles

text: Leisure

text: Musicals

text: On cover: Lulu Glaser.

text: Sweet Ann Page. [musical]

text: words by Louis de Lange and Edgar Smith ; music by W.H. Neidlinger.

title: By the gallants I am feted

title: By the gallants I am feted. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Sunny California, fairest of the union. [first line of chorus]

originInfo:
1900

      [San Francisco]

    J.L. Thorp

namePart: Thorp, Jennie L.

text: California

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Nevada Falls; bear; forest; mining.

text: words and music by Jennie L. Thorp.

title: California, Queen of old Columbia

title: Queen of old Columbia, sunny California! [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: My thoughts turn back to days when I was but a little child. [first line]

text: Reminiscing

text: Mothers

text: Poverty

text: Childhood

text: On cover: R.J. Jose.

text: On cover: Rural home.

text: words and music by Paul Dresser.

title: Calling to her boy just once again

title: I'd go back to days of want and sorrow. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Can one long for the dead forget the rose. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; [etc.]Edward Schuberth & Co.

namePart: Bertram, Helen

namePart: Hay, Helen

namePart: De Koven, Reginald (1859-1920)

text: Love

text: Waltzes

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Foxy Quiller. [musical]

text: Dedication: To Miss Helen Bertram.

text: words by Helen Hay ; music by Reginald de Koven.

title: Can I forget?

title: Can I forget, sweetheart forget! [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: They're all after Pott. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkChappell & Co. ; Boosey & Co.

namePart: Monckton, Lionel (1861-1924)

text: Ship captains

text: Musicals

text: The Messenger Boy. [musical]

text: Stamp on cover: Hitchcock's, 11 Park row, N. Y.

text: words by Adrian Ross ; music by Lionel Monckton.

title: Captain Pott

title: I'm famous Captain Pott, Tin Pott! Tin Pott! [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Life's sweet  and joyous song. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: [c1900] / 1907Berlin ; New York ; Chicago; [etc.]Apollo Verlag ; Jos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Steger, Julius (1870-1959)

namePart: Herbert, Joseph

text: Youth

text: Advice

text: Friendship

text: Waltzes

text: On cover: Julius Steger.

text: words by Joseph Herbert ; music by Paul Lincke.

title: Castles in the air

title: In seasons fair, of friends you'll find aplenty. [first line]

text: Sheet music


text: Youth

text: Advice

text: Friendship

text: Waltzes

text: On cover: Julius Steger.

title: Castles in the air

text: Sheet music


title: Let poets sing the praises of nectar's ecstasy. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.

text: Love songs

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: The girl behind the counter. [musical]

text: words by Will. D. Cobb ; music by Paul Lincke.

title: The cherry in the glass

title: I see her smile so entrancing. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Let us join in a song of rejoicing. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Trevelyan, Arthur

text: Choirs (Music)

text: Heaven

text: Choral singing

text: Dreams

text: Supplement of the Easter Journal and Advertiser. April 8, 1900, pp. 9-12.

text: On cover: a robed woman holding a flower.

text: words and music by Arthur Trevelyan.

title: The choir celestial

title: At the twilight hour of winter's day, I dreamed a dream divine. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Cindy I dreams about you. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkSpaulding, Reed & Wayburn

namePart: Dailey, Peter F.

text: African Americans

text: Betrothal

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Peter F. Dailey.

text: words and music by Dave Reed Jr.

title: Cindy, I dreams about you

title: A darkey loved a dusky Miss. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Goodbye Clorine, goodbye. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900San FranciscoLee Johnson & Co.

namePart: Johnson, Lee, songwriter

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Ballads, American

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Female portrait.

text: words and music by Lee Johnson.

title: Clorine

title: Beside a cottage where the ivy's creep. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Lullaby, lullaby, mother is watching close by your side. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New York ; ChicagoThe S. Brainard's Sons Co.

namePart: Hirschberg, F. P.

text: Lullabies -- United States

text: Waltzes

text: Mothers & children

text: words and music by Fannie Portugal Hirschberg.

title: Close your sleepy eyes

title: Dreamy childish innocence. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: I'm the finest thing in the soldier line. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

text: Soldiers

text: Alcoholic beverages

text: Battlefields

text: Military promotions

text: Humorous songs

text: On cover: Man holding a fan.

text: Stamp on cover: Property of the Witmark music library.

text: Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to our esteemed friend Col. A. H. Goetting, Springfield, Mass.

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

title: The Colonel

title: For that they made me colonel. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Come back ma honey boy to me. [first line of chorus]

originInfo:
1900

      New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]

    M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Weber, Jos.

namePart: Fields, L. M.

namePart: Russell, Lillian (1861-1922)

text: Louisiana

text: Pleading (Begging)

text: African Americans

text: Bayous

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Jos. Weber; L.M. Fields; Lillian Russell.

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

title: Come back ma honey boy to me

title: By a bayou far away in Louisiana. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: An old man's only daughter had left her humble home. [first line]

originInfo: 1900[s.l.]J.H. Warner

namePart: Warner, J. H.

text: Farewells

text: Family reunions

text: Fathers and daughters

text: Regret

text: Desertion

text: No cover.

text: words and music by J.H. Warner.

title: Come back to us we love you just the same

text: Sheet music


title: Night shades are falling, the birds they all sleep. [first line]

namePart: Olcott, Chauncey (1858-1932)

text: Meetings

text: Love songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: A man in military uniform.

text: words and music by Chauncey Olcott.

title: Come, my sweet Queen

title: Hasten to me, love; my darling, I'm waiting for you.

text: Sheet music


title: Then my command obey, and sorrow cast away. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]Chas. K. Harris

namePart: La Rue, Al.

namePart: Hirst, Chas. R.

namePart: Fleming, Carroll

text: Alcoholic beverages

text: Kings

text: Laughter

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: Joy

text: On cover: Chas. R. Hirst; illustration of a king wearing a crown.

text: words by Carroll Fleming ; music by Chas. R. Hirst.

title: The comedy king

title: Gay and free behold in me a king of great renown. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Coon! Coon! Coon! I wish my color would fade. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900ChicagoSol. Bloom

namePart: 3 Norrises

namePart: Jefferson, Gene

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: "3 Norrises." [singing group]

text: words by Gene Jefferson ; music by Leo Friedman.

title: Coon, coon, coon

title: lthough it's not my color, I'm feeling mighty blue. [first line]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Kelly & Violette

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Kelly and Violette.

title: Coon, coon, coon

title: Although it's not my color, I'm feeling mighty blue. [first line]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Leonard, Eddie (1875-1941)

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Eddie Leonard.

title: Coon, coon, coon

text: Sheet music


namePart: Morton, Dorothy (19th cent.)

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Dorothy Morton.

title: Coon, coon, coon

text: Sheet music


namePart: Midgley, Fannie (1877-1932)

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Fannie Midgley.

title: Coon, coon, coon

text: Sheet music


namePart: Johnson, Dora Dean (1873?-1949)

namePart: Johnson, Charles Ellis (1857-1926)

text: Doves

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Passing (Identity)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Johnson and Dean.

title: Coon, coon, coon

text: Sheet music


title: My Creole Belle, I love her swell. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: [c1900] / 1901Buffalo, NY ; Detroit Mich.The Lampe Music Co. ; The Whitney Warner Pub. Co.

namePart: Lampe, J. B. (Jens Bodewalt)

namePart: Sidney, George

namePart: Sidney, George (fl. 1805-1825)

text: Celebrations

text: Weddings

text: Creoles

text: African Americans

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Female portraits.

text: words by George Sidney ; music by J. Bodewalt Lampe.

title: Creole Belle

title: All coons are prancin,singin and dancin. [first line]

text: Sheet music


text: Celebrations

text: Weddings

text: Creoles

text: African Americans

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Female portraits.

title: Creole Belle

text: Sheet music

publisher: The Lampe Music Co. ; The Whitney Warner Pub. Co.


title: Don't you hear de singin' of de stars? [first

originInfo: 1900New YorkChappell & Co. Ltd.

namePart: M. F.

namePart: Clutsman, George H.

text: African Americans

text: Music

text: Nature

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Descriptive subtitle: A southern love-song.

text: words by M. F. ; music by George H. Clutsam.

title: Croon, croon, underneat' de moon

title: Croon, croon, underneat' de moon. [first line of chorus]

title: Don't you hear de singin' of de stars? first

text: Sheet music


title: Cuban soldiers' return

originInfo: 1900Cincinnati, New YorkFillmore Brothers

namePart: Fields, G. W.

text: Cuba

type: name

nameType: corporate

text: Spanish-American War Veterans

text: For piano or organ solo.

text: Dedication: Dedicated to the 9th regiment of Ill. volunteers. Spanish American War.

text: On cover: Soldier with a rifle.

text: by G.B. Fields.

title: Cuban soldiers' return

text: Sheet music


title: They sat by the brook together on the eve he went away. [first line]

originInfo: 1900BostonHub Music Co.

namePart: Laurens, Marie

namePart: Gardener, A. C.

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Daisies

text: Arrivals & departures

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Marie Laurens.

text: words by Agnes Alcott Howard ; music by A.C. Gardner.

title: The daisy's prophecy

text: Sheet music


title: When I go out promenading up and down.

originInfo: 1900Fred Solomon

namePart: Solomon, Fred.

namePart: Bruno, Chris

namePart: Russell, Mabel

text: Cakewalk (Dance)

text: Dandies

text: Flirting

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Musical supplement to the Sunday Examiner.

text: On cover: Chris Bruno and Mabel Russell.

text: Descriptive subtitle: Cake-walk song and chorus with dance.

text: composed by Fred Solomon.

title: The dandiest boy in town

title: The sporty life is not the snap that it crack'd up to be. [first line]

title: When I go out promenading up and down.

text: Sheet music


title: It shouldn't take so very much to urge a man to be kind to the daughters of a clergyman. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Klein, Charles (1867-1915)

namePart: Stewart, Grant (1866-1929)

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

namePart: De Angelis, Jefferson (1859-1933)

text: Paris (France)

text: Clergy

text: Fathers and daughters

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Corruption

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Innocence (Psychology)

text: On cover: Jefferson de Angelis.

text: A Royal Rogue. [musical]

text: words by Chas. Klein Grant Stewart ; music by W.T. Francis.

title: The daughters of a minister

title: A clergyman who lives in a little country spot. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: She watches and waits for him. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkFeist & Frankenthaler

namePart: Stanford, Tony

namePart: Bennett & Rich

text: Death

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Bittersweet

text: Waltzes

text: Sailors

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Expectation (Psychology)

text: On cover: Bennett and Rich, song illustrators.

text: On cover: Woman waving goodbye to a ship at sea.

text: words and music by Tony Stanford.

title: Day by day

title: A sailor was bidding his sweetheart goodbye. [first line]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New YorkFeist & Frankenthaler ; Leo. Feist

namePart: Bohannon & Corey

text: Death

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Bittersweet

text: Waltzes

text: Sailors

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Expectation (Psychology)

text: On cover: Bohannon and Corey.

text: words and music by Tony Stanford.

title: Day by day

text: Sheet music


text: Death

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Bittersweet

text: Waltzes

text: Sailors

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Expectation (Psychology)

text: On cover: G.A. Loose [?]

text: words and music by Tony Stanford.

title: Day by day

text: Sheet music


namePart: Walsh, Mattie

text: Death

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Bittersweet

text: Waltzes

text: Sailors

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Expectation (Psychology)

text: On cover: Mattie Walsh.

text: words and music by Tony Stanford.

title: Day by day

text: Sheet music


title: She is de belle of de ball. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Clayton, Bessie (1878-1948)

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

text: African Americans

text: Cakewalk (Dance)

text: African Americans

text: Women

text: Contests

text: On cover: Bessie Clayton.

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

title: De cake-walk queen

title: Dar's a meetin' of all de high society. [first line]

text: Sheet music


text: African Americans

text: Cakewalk (Dance)

text: African Americans -- Women

text: Contests

text: On cover: Bessie Clayton.

title: De cake-walk queen

text: Sheet music


title: On an old town square I remember there stood the old church where my mother used to go. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; ChicagoThe Brainard's Sons Co.

namePart: Stock, George Chadwick

text: Bells

text: Weddings

text: Reminiscing

text: Family life

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Bell.

text: Stamp on cover: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Station WABC.

text: words and music by Geo. Chadwick Stock.

title: The dear old bell

title: Oh the dear old bell hark! [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh, De light am fadin' on de ribber. [first line]

originInfo: 1900BostonH.M. Douglas

namePart: Johns, Clayton (1857-1932)

namePart: Deland, Lorin F.

text: Plantation life

text: African Americans

text: Love songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: man and woman embracing.

text: words by Lorin F. Deland ; music by Clayton Johns.

title: Dinah

title: Dinah, when I gave mah heart to you. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Now do you think you could learn to love me as I do you. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago; [etc.]Chas. K. Harris

namePart: Hite, Mabel

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

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

text: Love

text: Questioning

text: United States

text: Betrothal

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Man and woman talking.

text: On cover: Mabel Hite.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: Do you think you could learn to love me

title: I would like to ask a question  if I only dared. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: To me the opposite sex is most attentive. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Perlet, Herman

namePart: Carle, Richard (1871-1941)

text: Betrothal

text: Waltzes

text: Flirting

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Dancing lady with a fan.

text: Mam'selle 'Awkins. [musical]

text: by Richard Carle and Herman Perlet.

title: Dolly

title: Dolly, Dolly, simple and sweet. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: How dear to dis heart vas mine grand child. [first line]

originInfo: 1900White-Smith Music Pub. Co.

namePart: Adams, Charles Follen (1842-1918)

text: German Americans

text: Grandparent and child

text: Love, Paternal

text: No cover.

text: words by Charles Follen Adams ; music by Adam Geibel.

title: Dot leedle Loweeza

title: Dot leedle Loweeza, dot charming Loweeza. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Summer night an' sighin' breeze, long de lover's lane. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]Jos. W. Stern & Co.

namePart: Earle, Virginia (1875-1937)

namePart: Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

namePart: Cook, Will Marion

text: Walking

text: Love

text: African Americans

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Virginia Earle.

text: The Casino Girl [musical].

text: Descriptive subtitle: Plantation Croon.

text: words by Paul Lawrence Dunbar ; music by Will Marion Cook.

title: Down de lover's lane

title: Down de lover's lane

text: Sheet music


title: When breaks the dawn of the day. [first line]

originInfo: 1900ChicagoThe Albright Music Co.

namePart: Hahn, Arthur

namePart: Titus, W. L.

text: Ships

text: Death

text: Sailors

text: On cover: Arthur Hahn.

text: On cover: Ship at sea.

text: words by W.L. Titus ; music by H.W. Petrie.

title: Down in the deep, let me sleep when die

title: Down in the deep let me sleep when die. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


text: Ships

text: Death

text: Sailors

text: Store sticker on cover: Marks Music, 225 West 46th St., New York.

text: Stamp on cover: Property of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Station WABC.

title: Down in the deep, let me sleep when die

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900ChicagoThe Albright Music Co. ; Franklin Earl Hathaway

text: Ships

text: Death

text: Sailors

text: On cover: A ship at sea.

title: Down in the deep, let me sleep when die

title: Down in the deep, let me sleep when die. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: [c1900]/1932New YorkThe Albright Music Co. ; Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

text: Ships

text: Death

text: Sailors

title: Down in the deep, let me sleep when die

text: Sheet music


title: Let the toast pass, drink to the lass. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900W.R. Hearst

namePart: Sheridan

namePart: McVicker, Julius L.

namePart: Hackett, Norman (1874-1958)

text: Women

text: Toasting

text: Drinking songs

text: On cover: Norman Hackett.

text: The School for Scandal. [musical]

text: words by Sheridan ; arr. By Julius L. McVicker.

title: Drinking song

title: Here's to the girl of bashful fifteen. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You may rave as you stare at the bold millionaire. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkEdward Schuberth & Co.

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: McConnell, H. T.

text: Drum majors

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Casino Girl. [Casino Girl]

text: On cover: Virginia Earle.

text: Supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. May 13, 1900.

text: words by Harry B. Smith ; music by H.T. Macconnell.

title: Drum major's song

title: With a martial air, so debonaire. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: In our country to bank upon title or rank is follish we are aware. [first line]

originInfo:
1900

      New York

    The Rogers Bros. Music Publishing Co.

namePart: Bageard, Jeanette

namePart: Goodwin, J. Cheever (John Cheever) (1850-1912)

namePart: Levi, Maurice

text: Central Park (New York, N.Y.)

text: Titles of honor and nobility

text: Waltzes

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: In Central Park. [musical]

text: On cover: Jeannette Bageard.

text: words by J. Cheever Goodwin ; music by Maurice Levi.

title: The Duchess of Central Park

title: For it's, Oh! Isn't she pretty? [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


text: Central Park (New York, N.Y.)

text: Titles of honor and nobility

text: Waltzes

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: In Central Park. [musical]

text: On cover: Jeannette Bageard.

title: The Duchess of Central Park

text: Sheet music


title: Dusky Liliputians

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Steinberg, Maurice J.

text: Cakewalks

text: Piano music

text: Marches (Piano)

text: Descriptive subtitle: An African diversion; Cake-walk and two step.

text: For Piano

text: by Maurice J. Steinberg.

title: Dusky Liliputians

text: Sheet music


title: Oh, ladies! ladies! ladies! remember its the duty of a wife. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkHowley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Leigh, Fred W.

namePart: Murray, Frederick

namePart: Eldridge, Press

text: Advice

text: Humorous songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Husband and wife

text: On cover: Press Eldridge in blackface.

text: by Murray and Leigh.

title: The duty of a wife

title: Husbands are peculiar things they want to be understood. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: I am a man a sort of man that likes to take things easy. [first line]

originInfo: 1900London ; New YorkFrancis, Day & Hunter

namePart: Lauder, Harry, Sir (1870-1950)

text: Sleeping

text: Church services

text: Laziness

text: Justice facilities

text: Humorous songs

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Marital conflict

text: Stamp on cover: S. R. Schwartz.

text: On cover: Caricature of Harry Lauder in tartan patterned kilt.

text: words and music by Harry Lauder.

title: Early in the morning

title: For it's far too early in the morning for to waken me. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: You talk about your swell coons, well they don't count with me. [first line]

originInfo: 1900ChicagoSol. Bloom

namePart: Lawrence, Scott

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Education

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Class consciousness

text: On cover: Eva Mudge.

text: Music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. March 3, 1901, pp. 5-8.

text: words and music by Scott Lawrence.

title: An educated coon is best of all

title: Cause he's an edicated baby. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: One summer's day, while the sun's brightest ray shone from the skies above. [first line]

originInfo: 1900Brooklyn, NYGoetz & Co.

namePart: Geary, T. Mayo

namePart: Breen, Harry J.

namePart: Stone, Laura

text: Farewells

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Nature

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: A young couple embracing.

text: Music supplement of the New York Journal and Advertiser. March 13, 1904, pp. 5-8.

text: On cover: Laura Stone.

text: words by H.J. Breen ; music by T. Mayo Geary.

title: Ere the old love dies away

title: In that village town I left her. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: It has been years since first I met you Erma. [first line]

originInfo: 1900Kansas CityJ.W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co.

namePart: Oakford, S. S.

namePart: Hanvey, Louis

text: Separation (Psychology)

text: Reminiscing

text: Love songs

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Louis Hanvey ; S.S. Oakford.

text: On cover: Woman in a dress.

text: words and music by S.S. Oakford.

title: Erma

title: Erma, my sweetheart, you are so true. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Everybody in the place looked right at me. [first line of chorus]

namePart: Murray, Stewart Williams

text: Eating & drinking

text: Prohibition

text: Humorous songs

text: Larceny

text: Mistaken identity

text: On cover: Stewart Williams Murray.

text: words and music by Stewart Williams Murray.

title: Ever since my childhood I've been hoodooed night and day. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: The leader of the blackville club arose last labor night. [first line]

namePart: Helf, J. Fred

namePart: Heelan, Will A.

text: Flags

text: Ethnic groups

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Signs and symbols

text: Ethnic costume

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Will A. Heelan and J. Fred. Helf.

text: words and music by Will. A. Heelan & J. Fred. Helf.

title: Every race has a flag but the coon

title: For Ireland has her harp and shamrock. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: [c1900] / 1920New YorkJos. W. Stern & Co.; Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

text: Flags

text: Ethnic groups

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Signs and symbols

text: Ethnic costume

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

title: Every race has a flag but the coon

text: Sheet music


text: Flags

text: Ethnic groups

text: African Americans

text: African Americans

text: Race identity

text: Signs and symbols

text: Ethnic costume

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

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

title: Every race has a flag but the coon

text: Sheet music

publisher: Jos. W. Stern & Co.; Edward B. Marks Music Corporation


title: Well I've heard about some coons a-bein' lucky. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkEdw. M. Koninsky & Bros.

namePart: Dixon, James

namePart: Moulton, Ernest

text: African Americans

text: Money

text: United States

text: Prosperity

text: On cover: Man in a carriage; money bags.

text: words by Jas. Dixon ; music by Ernest Moulton.

title: Ev'rything's a-comin' mah way

title: For ev'rything's a comin' mah way. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: One day I may swear by the eyes of black, the next by the eyes of blue. [first line]

namePart: Smith, Harry Bache (1860-1936)

namePart: Herbert, Victor (1859-1924)

text: Women

text: Eyes

text: Hair

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Sexual attraction

text: The Viceroy. [musical]

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

title: Eyes of black and eyes of blue

title: Eyes of black and eyes of blue. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; LondonM. Witmark & Sons

text: Women

text: Eyes

text: Hair

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Sexual attraction

title: Eyes of black and eyes of blue

text: Sheet music


title: The poet songs of coal black eyes. [first line]

namePart: Welsch, Edgar, Mrs.

namePart: Welsch, Edgar

namePart: Alice

text: Irish

text: Eyes

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Andrew Mack.

text: "The Rebel" [musical]

text: Dedication on cover: Respectfully dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Welsch.

text: words by "Alice" ; music by Andrew Mack.

title: Eyes of blue

title: Eyes of blue tender, true. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh, Eleanor can you forget the happy days of long ago. [first line]

originInfo: 1900New YorkCrown Music Co.

namePart: Webb, Weston

namePart: Dooley, Alphonsus

text: Reminiscing

text: Nature

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: On cover: Florence Emmet.

text: words by Alphonsus Dooley ; music by Weston Webb.

title: Fair Eleanor

title: I oft think of days gone bye. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Oh! Those were happy days. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900H.K. Sloan

namePart: Ernst, William, Jr.

namePart: Gilpin, Charles, 3rd.

text: Romances

text: Fairy Tales

text: Musicals

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Supplement of The Philadelphia Times. Sunday, April 22, 1900.

text: Mr. Aguinaldo of Manila. [musical]

text: words by William Ernst, Jr. ; music by Charles Gilpin, 3rd.

title: Fairy tales

title: In days of old each fairy tale was looked upon as true. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: Wear a rose when you sing tonight. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New YorkF.A. Mills.

namePart: Gardenier, Ed

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Women singers

text: Roses

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Blanche Ring; red roses.

text: words and music by J. Fred. Helf and Ed. Gardenier.

title: The fatal rose of red

title: Please wear a red rose, uncle. [first line]

text: Sheet music


text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Women singers

text: Roses

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: On cover: Red roses; female portrait.

title: The fatal rose of red

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New YorkF.A. Mills

namePart: Hood, Olla

text: Love

text: Reminiscing

text: Roses

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Women singers

text: United States

text: Waltzes

text: On cover: Red roses; Olla Hood.

title: The fatal rose of red

text: Sheet music


title: My gal am actorin' now, she's shook her married name. [first line of chorus]

originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago; [etc.]M. Witmark & Sons

namePart: Stromberg, John (1853-1902)

namePart: Weber, Jos.

namePart: Fields, L. M.

namePart: Templeton, Fay (1865-1939)

text: African Americans

text: Cakewalks

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: On cover: Jos. Weber; L.M. Fields; Fay Templeton.

text: "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" and "Quo Vass Iss." [musicals]

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

title: Fetch your baby home

title: 'se very much on de rack, my gal gave me the sack. [first line]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Clayton, Bessie (1878-1948)

text: Piano music

text: Marches (Piano)

text: For Piano; March and two-step.

text: On cover: Jos. Weber; L.M. Fields; Bessie Clayton [dancer].

text: by John Stromberg.

title: Fiddle-Dee-Dee

title: Fiddle-Dee-Dee" and "Quo Vass Iss."

text: Sheet music


title: Within a church the bells were ringing out. [first line]

namePart: Chattaway, Thurland (1872-1947)

namePart: Bell, May A.

text: Death

text: Weddings

text: Mothers and daughters

text: Advice

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Dedication: To my devoted wife.

text: On cover: May A. Bell; flowers.

text: words and music by Thurland Chattaway.

title: A flower from the garden of life

title: She is a flow'r from the garden of life. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Natus, Joseph

text: Death

text: Weddings

text: Mothers and daughters

text: Advice

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Dedication: To my devoted wife.

text: On cover: Joseph Natus.

text: words and music by Thurland Chattaway.

title: A flower from the garden of life

text: Sheet music


title: I sat 'neath the bough of an old willow tree. [first line]

originInfo: 1900Anita M. Baldwin

namePart: Merrell, Helen

namePart: Baldwin, Anita May (1876-1939)

text: Doves

text: Love songs

text: Waltzes

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Musical supplement Sunday Examiner.

text: On cover: Helen Merrell.

text: words and music by Anita M. Baldwin.

title: The fond dove and his lady love

title: I love thee well Ah! let me tell. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


title: Tara, you shall hear the harp once more. [first line of chorus]

originInfo:
1900

      New York ; Chicago; [etc.]

    Howley, Haviland & Co.

namePart: Woodward, Matthew

text: Liberty

text: Ireland

text: Patriotic music

text: Marches (Voice with piano)

text: On cover: Andrew Mack.

text: "The Rebel" [musical]

text: words by Matthew  Woodward ; music by Andrew Mack.

title: For freedom and Ireland

title: I heard the voice of the mighty past. [first line]

text: Sheet music


title: You ask me why upon my breast I wear her photograph. [first line]

originInfo: 1900MilwaukeeChas. K. Harris

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

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

namePart: Dagwell, Aurie

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Aurie Dagwell.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

title: For old time's sake I told her that I loved her. [first line of chorus]

text: Sheet music


namePart: Henry & Gallot

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Henry & Gallot.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

text: Sheet music


originInfo: 1900New York ; Chicago ; [etc.]Chas. K. Harris

namePart: Jones, Ada

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Ada Jones.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

text: Sheet music


namePart: Morton, Augustine

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Augustine Morton.

text: Stamp on cover: Lomas Music, Co., 605 W. Madison st., Chicago.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

text: Sheet music


namePart: Julian, Theo.

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Theo. Julian.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

text: Sheet music


namePart: Strousl & Smith

text: Love

text: Interpersonal relations

text: Bittersweet

text: Man-woman relationships

text: Regret

text: Interpersonal conflict

text: Desertion

text: Death & burial

text: On cover: Strousl & Smith.

text: Stamp on cover: From Henry J. Wehman's book and music store, 109[?] Park Row, New York City.

text: by Chas. K. Harris.

title: For old time's sake

text: Sheet music