The great baby show, or, The abolition show?
Contributors: Foster, Morrison, 1823-1904
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh
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.

Includes text of the work, in an unidentified hand, with the caption "The great baby show, or, The abolition show?, a few lines of melody (handwritten), a short handwritten note by Stephen Foster to his brother Morrison, and a copy 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.

No imprint information present.

Caption title.

LC copy includes note in ink: "Foster Hall reproduction."

Gift; J .K. Lilly of Indianapolis; March 27, 1933.