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'Mary Black', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

'Mary Black', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

2-949-170 - /Heritage Images

'Mary Black', 1901. 'Vocal and instrumental selections from Weber & Field's New Burlesque Production "Hoity-Toity"; Mary Black sung by Fay Templeton; lyrics by Edgar Smith, music by John Stromberg'. 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.

Image Details

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. Joseph Weber: American: Performer, musical promoter
  2. Lew Fields: American: Performer, musical promoter
  3. Fay Templeton: American: Actress, singer, songwriter, and comedian
People Related
  1. M Witmark & Sons: American: Music publisher, publishers of sheet music
  2. John Stromberg: American: Composer, songwriter
  3. Edgar Smith: American: Lyricist, songwriter
  4. Weber and Fields: American: Comedy duo, performers
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Notated music
  2. Portrait
  3. Scores
Category Hierarchy

Lifestyle & Leisure Entertainment & Media

Society & Culture Music

Artistic Representations Portraits

People Other

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4788x6084
File Size : 85,343kb

Aliases

  1. 1991777
  1. 1040001517
  1. 1991777
  1. 2-949-170
  1. 2949170

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