Ma Ragtime Baby, by Fred S. Stone. NY: Myll Bros., 1899
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African-American related sheet music, and sheet music written by African Americans, 1851-1974
A collection of 651 pieces of sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
An unpublished guide is available for consultation in the Department of Special Collections.
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William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection
2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Caricatures of Black Americans : sheet music, 1861-1947
White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
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Curator for American and British History
Head, Humanities and Social Sciences Resource Group
Interim selector for Political Science (March 2015-)
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