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'Mister your room rent's due', 1898. Creator: Unknown.

'Mister your room rent's due', 1898. Creator: Unknown.

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'Mister your room rent's due', 1898. Racist depiction of a 'mammy' presenting a bill for board to a diner: 'Mister your room rent's due I'm tired of supporting you'. Words by Burt Grant, music by Elmer Brown. 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.

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Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
People Related
  1. Elmer Bowman: : Composer
  2. Burt Grant: : Lyricist
  3. F.A. Mills: American: Publisher, lyricist, songwriter, composer
Picture Type
  1. Notated music
  2. Scores
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4486x5730
File Size : 75,307kb

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  1. 1255812
  1. 1040001399
  1. 1255812
  1. 2-949-774
  1. 2949774

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