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'Baby, you'se the swellest gal', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

'Baby, you'se the swellest gal', 1901. Creator: Unknown.

2-949-209 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

'Baby, you'se the swellest gal', 1901. 'Also sung by the Bennette Sisters, with Great Success; words & music by Chas. W. Kremer; sung with great success by the Watterman Sisters'. 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: :
People Related
  1. M Witmark & Sons: American: Music publisher, publishers of sheet music
  2. Charles W. Kremer: American: Composer, lyricist, songwriter
  3. Watterman Sisters: American: Singers
Medium
  1. Photograph
Picture Type
  1. Portrait
  2. 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) : 4393x5940
File Size : 76,449kb

Aliases

  1. 1952979
  1. 1040003151
  1. 1952979
  1. 2-949-209
  1. 2949209

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