<I>Jerome & Schwartz's Comic Song Folio</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1902
name: label: Written by
content: William Jerome, American, 1865 - 1932
label: Written by
content: Jean Schwartz, Hungarian American, 1878 - 1956
label: Published by
content: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., founded 1900
notes: label: Description
content: A book of sheet music with songs by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz. The "Comic Song Folio" was published by Shapiro, Bernstein, & Company. The front cover is printed in orange, dark green, and black with a floral vine behind two black-and-white portraits, the portrait on the left of Jerome and the portrait on the right of Schwartz. There are fifty-four (54) interior pages printed and numbered on both sides. The back cover has advertisements for other publications available from Shapiro, Bernstein, & Company printed in dark green ink. The pages are bound along the left side with string and there is black cloth binding adhered around them and underneath the front cover. The book contains fifteen (15) songs, including the minstrel songs "The Man Who Plays the Tambourine," "There'll Never be a Coon in the Presidential Chair," "Dusky Dudes Song," and "Looping the Loop." The latter two songs reference the cake walk.
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 printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Minstrel (Music)
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Popular music
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1865-1921
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Liljenquist Family Collection
label: Classification
content: Racist and Stereotypical Objects
label: Classification
content: Written Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.166.32.2
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 x D (closed): 12 × 9 3/8 × 1/4 in. (30.5 × 23.8 × 0.6 cm)