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1852
Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection
GUSN-193893
This sheet music contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
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The cover depicts St. Clare's deathbed scene from the book Uncle Tom's Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The titular character, Tom, kneels at one side of St. Clare's bed, holding his hand, while another man looks over on the other side of the bed.
deaths
sheet music
sheet music
prints (visual works)
Sheet music project number SMHNE778
1 print : lithograph
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.10.TMP.066
Collier, M. A. (Lyricist)
J.H. Bufford & Co. (Lithographer)
Ditson, Oliver, 1811-1888 (Publisher)
sheet music
prints (visual works)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Slavery
Enslaved person
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Included in the Sheet Music Images Database.
Death
Founded upon a scene in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Item
Boston, Mass.
Oliver Ditson & Co.
Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection
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