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Stannard & Dixon Topsy's Polka.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.013.02 Author/Creator: Stannard & Dixon Place Written: London, England Type: Print Date: 1852 Pagination: 1 print : col. ; 34 x 22 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by Henry Lawful. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lithograph image in color of a young African American girl with a patterned head scarf. Printed by Stannard & Dixon, lithograph by Louisa Corbaux.

Stannard & Dixon
Corbaux, Louisa, 1808-?
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Tully, J. H., fl. 1852-1860

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