<I>He's Up Against The Real Thing Now</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1898
name: label: Composed by
content: Bert Williams, American, 1874 - 1922
label: Subject of
content: George "Nash" Walker, American, 1873 - 1911
label: Written by
content: Edward Furber
label: Published by
content: Jos. W. Stern & Co., American
label: Owned by
content: Vernon Sugg McDonald, American, 1906 - 1982
label: Owned by
content: Mary Elizabeth Sugg, American, 1839 - 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Sheet music for the song He's Up Against The Real Thing Now. The front cover features three photographs. The photograph on left side of cover depicts an African American man in a suit with white type at bottom of the photograph that reads: [Williams]. The photograph on right side depicts an African American man in a suit with white type at bottom of photograph that reads: [Walker]. The photograph in the center features the two men in the other photographs dressed in costume, Walker is in blackface and Williams has an exaggerated collar. A plant-like design, in green ink, surrounds the photographs. Red type on front cover reads: [WILLIAMS AND WALKER'S Latest Comic Coon Craze / HE'S UP AGAINST / THE REAL THING NOW / WORDS BY / Edward Furber / MUSIC BY BERT A. WILLIAMS]. Underneath the photographs a text block contains a logo for Jos. W. Stern & Co. On the bottom of the cover there is an ink stamp that reads: [The Model, / Music Store / Washington St. Sonora, Cal.]. The interior of the sheet music contains five pages of music bars and notes in black ink. The music is for several songs. The back cover contains additional songs in red ink.
label: Statement
content: Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
place: label: Place collected
content: Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Blackface
label: Topic
content: Minstrel (Music)
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
label: Topic
content: Vaudeville
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Written Music
label: Exhibition
content: Power of Place
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 051
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sylvia Alden Roberts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.275.15
objectType: label: Type
content: sheet music
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)