Coon Coon Coon sheet music cover 1901, Edgar Keller

Sheet music cover "coon coon coon" from 1901; with insert photo of minstrel performer lew docksteader in blackface. Alternative cover of same piece: image:1900s sm coon coon coon. Jpg coon coon coon / words by gene jefferson; music by leo friedman. Friedman, leo, 1869-1927. Other titles first line of text: although it's not my color. First line of chorus: coon! coon! coon! notes for voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title: "the most successful song hit of 1901. " "introduced and sung by lew dockstader"--cover. Cover illustration: drawing of the faces of three black men, with the word "coon" incorporated into their features / edgar keller; photograph of lew dockstader. Alternate lines to second verse: p. 5. Advertisements for "the honeysuckle and the bee" and other songs: cop. 2, p. [2], [7-8] cover photograph: zoa matthews, cop. 3; annie kenwick, cop. 4. Library's cop. 2 inscribed: e. A. Young. Originally published: chicago: sol bloom, c1900. Subjects dockstader, lew,--1856-1924. Matthews, zoa. Kenwick, annie. Afro-americans--race identity--songs and music. Popular music--united states. Related names jefferson, gene. Performer: dockstader, lew, 1856-1924. Performer: matthews, zoa. Performer: kenwick, annie. Illustrator: keller, edgar, sol bloom (music publisher) part of sheet music collection, the john hay library repository brown university library box a, providence, ri, 02912 digital id (print copy 2) rpbaasm 0489 http://hdl. Loc. Gov/loc. Award/rpbaasm. 0489 (print copy 3) rpbaasm 0490 http://hdl. Loc. Gov/loc. Award/rpbaasm. 0490 (print copy 4) rpbaasm 0491 http://hdl. Loc. Gov/loc. Award/rpbaasm. 0491. Date: 1901.