“Mopsy Massy of Tallahassee”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1898
name: label: lyricist
content: Clanahan, Willis Leonard
label: composer
content: Comfort, Anita
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song “Mopsy Massey of Tallahassee” was written by Willis Leonard Clanahan, and composed and published by Anita Comfort of New York, New York in 1898. This sheet music appeared as a supplement to the “New York Herald” on April 26, 1903. The music features a stereotyped caricature of a barefoot African American woman at the top, presumably “Mopsy Massy.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0440.68
label: accession number
content: 1982.0440
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0440.68
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 10 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 26.035 cm