This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/17/2022
[AFRICAN AMERICAN]. [SHEET MUSIC]. A large group of over 165 minstrel sheet music songs. [V.p.: ca. 1890s – 1910s]. 4tos (from 342 x 262 mm to 318 x 241 mm). Original publisher’s color wrappers (wrappers worn, many with detached covers, several with tape repairs, ink stamps or notations on wrappers, text leaves generally worn, toned, and occasionally soiled, some with tape repairs). This interesting group of minstrel sheet music includes music written by Stephen Foster, Billy Rose, Kerry Mills, and others. These songs were mainly performed by white performers (mainly in blackface makeup); these performers include: Sophie Tucker, Anna Held, Maud Lambert, and others. Some titles are: Trixie, Prohibition Blues, Down at the Old Minstrel Show, Struttin’ Jim, I’m Alabama Bound, I Wish I Was in Dixie, and Bill Bailey --- Won’t You Please Come Home?