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Levi, Maurice Starmer

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Cover design by Starmer includes drawings of four white women (each at the corner of the page) eating watermelon.On cover: The watermelon party : the great success in the Rogers Bros. latest farce "In Washington" by John J. McNally ; management of Klaw & Erlanger.Dealer's stamp on page 3: B.C. Gutman, 965 Broadway near Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn [New York].Summary: Using stereotyped language, the narrator, an African American, speaks of various kinds of foods, and various kinds of people, but none of them compare to watermelon.
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Scores
Created Date:
1901
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American popular songs

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Music Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Musicals
  3. Songs
  4. Watermelons

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