[The great baby show, or, The abolition show]
Contributors: Foster, Morrison, 1823-1904
Published: 1896
Language: eng
Subjects: Political ballads and songs; Texts; Antislavery movements; Songs and music
Other titles: Villikins and his Dinah.
Work titles: Abolition show. Text
Notes: Words by Stephen Foster (verses 1-5, 8-9) and Morrison Foster (verses 6-7) to be sung to tune the Cockney ballad "Villikins and his Dinah." Never published complete with the music.

Photostat of an untitled 1896 article, from an unidentified newspaper, with the text of the work, commemorating the the first publication of the words to "The greath baby show, or, The abolition show" in the Pittsburgh post on Sept. 26, 1856.

Cataloger supplied title from the Foster Hall collection reproduction of the work.

Gift; J .K. Lilly of Indianapolis; Sept. 28, 1932.