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1852
GUSN-191288
Single sheet-title page; at center is image (lithograph) of a little girl in bed with three adults standing over her and one kneeling at bedside; looking down on the scene are angels and clouds; lettering in many different fonts above and below image.
sheet music
paper (fiber product)
ink
printing (process)
music
Music, Sheet
"Written and inscribed to the readers of / "Uncle Tom's Cabin"/ By/ John S. Adams./ Adapted to a favorite Melody" (printed)
"BOSTON/ Published by Oliver DItson, 115 Washington Street."
"Gould & Barry/ New York/ S. Brainard & Co./ Cleveland/ H.D. Hewitt/ New Orleans/ G.W. Brainard & Co./ Louisville/ CC Clapp & Co./ Boston"
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by Oliver Ditson in the Clerk's office of teh District Court of Massachusetts"
"Price 25 cts. net"
"Bufford's Lith. Boston"
"Mary D. Brewer/ Hillsboro, Illinois" (handwritten)
Oliver Ditson (Firm) (Publisher)
J.H. Bufford & Co. (Lithographer)
Adams, John S. (Composer)
14 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Evelyn Sawyer Tobias
2005.23.13
Hillsboro (Montgomery county, Illinois)
Massachusetts (United States)
Illinois (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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