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[SHEET MUSIC]. [MINSTRELSY]. Group of 33 Sheet Music Depicting Minstrels or Stereotypical Imagery of African-Americans. [V.p., ca. 1850s-1890s]. Color, tinted, or black and white lithographed front covers. 4tos. Approximately 14 x 10” or slightly smaller. Some general wear, soiling, spines worn or repaired, ink markings or stamps, three sheet music are front covers only. Very good. Titles include: The Whole Hog or None (two copies, one is front cover only), Walking for Dat Cake (front cover only), The Big Six (front cover only), Poor Old Joe, Songs of the Congo Melodists, When the Sun Shines bright on a Moonlight Night, Campbell’s Melodies, You’ll Remember Me, The Celebrated Negro Melodies, Christy’s Melodies (two copies, one in color, one in black and white), Darkie’s Serenade, Music of the Christy Minstrels, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Eva, Eva’s Parting Words, The Old Folks at Home, Uncle Remus March and Two Step, Uncle Jasper’s Jubilee Dance, The Young Carpenter, Young Eph’s Jubilee Song and Dance, Ethiopian Quadrilles, Gems of the Minstrelsy, I Wish I Was with Nancy, The Lay of the Last Lunatic Minstrel, Mackney’s Song About Songs, Minstrel Melodies, Mozzer Bought a Baby, My Little Octoroon, Nancy Fat & My Polly Ann, Old Dan Emmit’s Original Banjo Melodies, Christy’s The Other Side of Jordan, Peter Gray. From the Mark Rucker Collection.