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1852
Stannard & Dixon
The Tom-Tit polka.
Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Companion to the Topsy Polka, composed by Stephen Glover." Image of a young girl with short, dark, curly hair. Lithograph by A. Laby.
GLC05508.013.03
Unknown
Poor Tom!
Signed by Charles Still and William Holland Love in upper right corner. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Charles Jefferys and composed by Stephen Glover. Depicts a white slave owner, Legree, threatening the slave Tom,...
GLC05508.013.04
Hanhart, M. & N. (1852)
Uncle Tom's cabin No. 2: The slave mother.
Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ballad by George Linley. With illegible signature in upper right corner. Depicts a female slave with a small child fleeing from a master wielding a whip. Image by J. Brandard.
GLC05508.013.05
circa 1852-1860
Swift, H. (fl. 1852-1860)
Uncle Tom.
Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dedicated to W.H.J, music by H. Swift. Published by W. Hill in New York.
GLC05508.013.06
1853
National Theatre (New York, N.Y.: 1850-1860)
[Broadside advertising Uncle Tom's cabin at the National Theatre, New York]
A note from G.L. Aiken, the author of the specific play version of Uncle Tom's Cabin being advertised, warns the public that his play has only been performed at the Troy Museum before its current run at the National Theatre. Also includes excerpts...
GLC05508.013.09
16 December 1859
Liberator. [Vol. 29, no. 50 (December 16, 1859)]
Whole no. 1511. It includes "Brown's letter to his wife.", the burial of John Brown; South Carolina's secession movement and the dissolution of the Union.
GLC07287
20 November 1859
Doyle, Mahala (fl. 1859)
to John Brown
By the widow and mother of three men killed by Brown in the Pottawatomie massacre: "My son John whose life I begged of [you] is grown up and is very desirous to be at Charlestown on the day of your execution, would certainly be there if his means...
GLC07590
11 June 1821
Hale, Aurelia (ca. b. 1798)
to Sarah Hale
Letter to her sister, which is apparently the first since she left home. She describes quickly becoming accustomed to the lifestyle in Georgia and says that she prefers it, including the number of blacks in the area: she mentions that they "find it...
GLC08934.004
8 October 1859
unknown, fl. 1859;
to Mother
One letter from an enslaved man to his mother dated Alexandria, Va., October 8, 1859. Pertains to visiting with his friends at the Widow Bailys' in Faquier [Fauquier County], Virginia. Mentions meeting a young woman that he would like to marry and...
GLC00226
18 February 1863
Jones, William W. (fl. 1862-1863)
to Philip B. Jones
One letter addressed to Philip B. Jones from William W. Jones dated Feburary 18, 1863. Pertains to paying $1,400 for a 35-year old enslaved man named Joe currently being held in Gradys Jail. Also mentions that Joe's wife (unnamed) was included in the...
GLC01449.02
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