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"Sachem's daughter"

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1850

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

GUSN

GUSN-193896

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Description

This sheet music contains harmful imagery and language and employing racist stereotypes.

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Cover depicts an idigenous woman sitting along the coast and looking out at sea.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Native American
pastoral
sheet music
sheet music
prints (visual works)
lithographs

Additional Identification Number

Sheet music project number SMHNE779

Physical Description

1 print : lithograph

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.10.TMP.067

Record Details

Originator

White, Edward L. (Edward Little), 1809-1851 (Composer)
Smith, J. E. A. (Joseph Edward Adams), 1822-1896 (Lyricist)
J.H. Bufford & Co. (Lithographer)
Reed, George P. (Publisher)

Material Type

sheet music
prints (visual works)
lithographs

Subjects

Woman
Native Americans
Indigenous
Sheet Music

Accruals Note

Included in the Sheet Music Images Database.
Pastoral scenes

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

Boston, Mass.

Publisher

George P. Reed (Firm)

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

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