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'The Alabama barbecue', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

'The Alabama barbecue', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

2-949-160 - /Heritage Images

'The Alabama barbecue', 1901. 'Sung with great success by Sheridan & Flanagan; A Coontown Feast; words by Jean C. Havez, music by W. W. Herbert'. Inset photograph of two white performers in blackface. 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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Sensitive Subject

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. Sheridan & Flanagan: American: Minstrels, blackface performers, minstrel team, singers
People Related
  1. M Witmark & Sons: American: Music publisher, publishers of sheet music
  2. W. W. Herbert: American: Composer
  3. Jean Havez: American: Composer, lyricist, screenwriter, songwriter
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Notated music
  2. Portrait
  3. Scores
Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Entertainment & Media

Society & Culture Issues & Causes

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4739x6187
File Size : 85,900kb

Aliases

  1. 1952792
  1. 1040001501
  1. 1952792
  1. 2-949-160
  1. 2949160

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