Title

'Let me bring my clothes back home', 1898. Creator: Geo. O. Hart.

Caption

'Let me bring my clothes back home', 1898. 'As sung by Jones, Grant & Jones; words & music by Irving Jones'. 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

HRM23A11_176

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,0Mb (3,6Mb) / 13,6in x 17,4in / 4083 x 5223 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people black male library man men music arts country entertainment guy color design location century passing identity print begging score concept language offensive controversy African American African-American B&W sheet music afro-american pleading public library MONOCHROME song controversial racism United States of America Colour vaudeville 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W white and black 1890s New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL racist American America USA photograph united states Jones Mills Irving black colour Heritage Art scores 19th-century implied racism racial stereotype derogatory Notated music coon song Geo. O. Hart Hart Geo. O. George O. Hart F.A. Mills F.A. Frederick Allen Mills Frederick Allen Kerry Mills Kerry Irving Jones Grant & Jones