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'Close your dreamy eyes (for Mammy Lou)', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

'Close your dreamy eyes (for Mammy Lou)', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

2-949-151 - /Heritage Images

'Close your dreamy eyes (for Mammy Lou)', 1901. 'Refined plantation lullaby, sung with great success by Josephine Gassman'. 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.

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This image has been flagged as having a sensitive subject, or the attached metadata may use a historical and dated form of words and terms no longer used or deemed appropriate, but in common and accepted usage at the time the content was created and/or catalogued. No offence is intended and it is shown here and should be viewed in it’s historical context.

People Information

Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
Subject
  1. Josephine Gassman: American: Singer
People Related
  1. Lee Johnson: American: Composer, lyricist, songwriter, publisher
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Notated music
  2. Portrait
  3. Scores
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Society & Culture Music

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3986x5440
File Size : 63,527kb

Aliases

  1. 1953417
  1. 1040001491
  1. 1953417
  1. 2-949-151
  1. 2949151

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