Old black Joe: song & chorus

Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

University of Pittsburgh (depositor)

31735061832915

written & composed by Stephen C. Foster.
For voice and piano, with chorus refrain.
At head of title: 100 thousand copies sold.
Only p. 4 is numbered.
Reprint. Originally published: [New York] : Firth, Pond & Co., 1860.
Wm. A. Pond & Co. was at this address from 1877 until 1896. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Advertisements: Our selected, graded and classified music, soprano, mezzo, contralto & tenor songs, [no.] 12 on p. [2] and New music published by Wm. A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, N.Y., [no.] 900, on p. [6]
Title page illustration: lithograph of an Afro-American man and a white girl titled "Dan Bryant."
Price mark 4 in a diamond.
First line of text: Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay.
First line of chorus: I'm coming, I'm coming.
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 498.265.

eng

1 score ([3], 4, [2] p.) : ill. ; 35 cm.

Wm. A. Pond & Co.

New York (25 Union Square, New York)

notated music

African Americans--Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music--United States--To 1901

United States

University of Pittsburgh

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