Songster: P.T. Barnum's Great Clown Songster
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New York Popular Publishing Company
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Songster entitled P.T. Barnum's Great Clown Songster. The cover is red, and features a portrait of P.T. Barnum on the cover. At each corner of the portrait are globes labeled showing a continent. North and South America are in the upper left corner, Europe is in the upper right. Asia is in the lower left corner, and Africa is in the lower right. The title page lists several of the songs included. On the back is a portrait of Cool Burgess, along with decorative text and a repetition of the title of the book. The songs included in the songster are: “The Big Aquarium”; “Go to Barnum's Show”; “The Circus Tent”; “Dorkins' Night” ;“Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door”; “A Flower from my Angel Mother's Grave”; “The Skids are Out To-Day”; “Two Orphans”; “The Old Wooden Rocker” “The Pitcher of Beer”; “The Emblems of Ireland”; ““The Little Widow Dunn”; “The Little Green Leaf in Our Bible”; “Grandmother's Chair”; “Hark! Baby! Hark!”; “My Daughter Julia”; “My Love She is a Fairy Queen”; “The Happy Hottentots”; “Nancy Lee”; “Clown of the Pantomime” ;“The Hen Convention,” and “The Bill-Posters Dream”. Songsters were booklets of popular song lyrics meant to be carried around, usually in the pocket, and were published as sheet music was. The booklets share a name with a traveling musician called a songster, an occupation usually held by African Americans traveling and playing music during the Reconstruction era (after the Civil War). These artists had a great influence on the...
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