Title

'Say you love me Sue', 1899. Creators: Unknown, Elmer Chickering.

Caption

'Say you love me Sue', 1899. 'Peter F. Dailey's Latest Success as Sung at Weber & Fields Broadway Music Hall; words by Harry B. Smith, music by John Stromberg'. 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_177

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

69,3Mb (4,0Mb) / 14,1in x 19,0in / 4242 x 5711 (300dpi)

Keywords

female Caucasian women woman people black male library job man men romance music arts country entertainment singing white window guy occupation romantic color design location century moustache profession vocalist singer print score concept language offensive controversy African American African-American B&W sheet music mustache facial hair afro-american wooing public library song controversial racism United States of America Colour vaudeville 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W romancing white and black 1890s New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL racist American America USA photograph portrait united states Unknown Smith John Weber Peter Francis Heritage Art Fields scores 19th-century implied racism racial stereotype derogatory Notated music coon song Fields & Stromberg Stromberg Elmer Chickering Chickering Elmer Peter F. Dailey Dailey Peter F. Peter Francis Dailey Harry B. Smith Harry B. Harry Bache Smith Harry Bache John Stromberg Weber and Fields Weber & Weber and Weber & Fields