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The watermelon trust : a slow drag
- Title
- The watermelon trust : a slow drag / by Harry Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Harry C.,
- Publication
- New York : Barron & Thompson, [1906]
- ©1906
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| Format | Access | Status | Call Number | Location |
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| Notated music | Supervised use | Available | P.I. (Rag) (Thompson. Watermelon trust. Copy 1) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Notated music | Supervised use | Available | P.I. (Rag) (Thompson. Watermelon trust. Copy 2) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Henrich,
- Description
- 1 score (5 pages); 34 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Music.
- Ragtime music.
- Note
- For piano solo.
- Cover title.
- "Dedicated to Coates and Grundy" -- at top of cover.
- Cover design includes drawing in multiple colors of African American young men seated in a field eating watermelon; nearby are trees, a wooden fence, and a small house / Henrich.
- Lulu Coates and James Grundy were a vaudeville team beginning approximately 1899; their most famous act was "The watermelon trust" (information from Blacks in blackface: a sourcebook on early black musical shows, pages 1387 and 1396).
- Call Number
- P.I. (Rag) (Thompson. Watermelon trust)
- Author
- Thompson, Harry C., composer.
- Title
- The watermelon trust : a slow drag / by Harry Thompson.
- Publisher
- New York : Barron & Thompson, [1906]
- Copyright Date
- ©1906
- Type of Content
- notated music
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Staff notation.
- Chronological Term
- 1901-1910
- Added Author
- Henrich, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- P.I. (Rag) (Thompson. Watermelon trust)