Title

'Carry me back to old Virginny': song and chorus, 1878. Creator: Connelly-Co..

Caption

'Carry me back to old Virginny': song and chorus, 1878. 'Two plantation melodies! Standard and popular!'.'Carry me back to old Virginny', words and music by James A. Bland, and 'There's a happy little home', words and music by Harry Woodson. Older black man sitting at the side of a road remembering his younger self depicted in the smaller illustration. 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

HRM23A14_287

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Rights managed

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87,0Mb (4,4Mb) / 16,1in x 21,0in / 4818 x 6308 (300dpi)

Keywords

people black male library man men age music arts country entertainment guy color design poor poverty location century print score concept language offensive controversy African American nostalgic African-American B&W sheet music afro-american patch public library MONOCHROME song controversial patches United States of America Colour vaudeville elderly man 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W white and black patched New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL woodcut nostalgia American America USA old age Blood united states old man old men Oliver Harry Heritage Art scores 19th-century James A. La vieillesse implied racism racial stereotype derogatory Notated music coon song Connelly-Co. Connelly Company Connelly Co. James Allen Bland Bland James Allen James A. Bland Oliver Ditson Ditson Oliver Ditson & Co. Harry Woodson Woodson