Title

'De cake-walk queen', 1900. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'De cake-walk queen', 1900. 'Featured as a Dance by the Wonderful Bessie Clayton at Weber & Fields Music Hall N.Y.; March Characteristic by John Stromberg; words by Harry B. Smith'. Portrait photograph of Broadway, vaudeville and burlesque dancer Bessie Clayton. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A04_420

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,9Mb (2,4Mb) / 13,4in x 18,2in / 4030 x 5456 (300dpi)

Keywords

female Caucasian women woman people black library music arts dance country entertainment white dancer color design performance performer performing location Victorian century print score concept language offensive controversy African American African-American B&W sheet music afro-american public library song controversial racism United States of America Colour vaudeville 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W white and black 1890s 1900s 20th century music hall New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL racist American America USA photograph portrait united states Unknown Smith John Bessie M Clayton Cakewalk Weber M Witmark & Sons Witmark M. Witmark & Sons Marcus Witmark & Sons Marcus Heritage Art scores 19th-century implied racism racial stereotype derogatory Notated music coon song Fields & Stromberg Stromberg Harry B. Smith Harry B. Harry Bache Smith Harry Bache John Stromberg Gay Nineties Bessie Clayton