[Sheet music, broadsides, and advertisements relating to Uncle Tom's Cabin]. [Decimalized .01- .11]

Uncle Tom's Cabin

J. H. J. Ronner announces a play by Harkins and Barbour of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 200 people in the cast. Boosts, "Cotton pickers, dancers, jubilee singers, Mississippi steamboat." "Scenically the most mammoth production of modern times." At the...

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Topsy's Polka.

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.

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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.

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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 an enslave, Legree, threatening an enslaved man named...

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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.

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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.

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Uncle Tom's glimpse of glory.

Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Words written by Eliza and dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Music by Frank Howard. Published by E.H. Wade, Boston.

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[Broadside advertising The life and personal adventures of Uncle Tom, for 40 years a slave! Also, The surprising adventures of wild Tom...]

Autobiography of Uncle Tom Jones, aka Thomas H. Jones, with an additional biography of Wild Tom, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, included. Published in 1854 and 1858, this edition is offered by Boston's J.E. Farewell & Co., who boast of its...

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[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...

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Slave life! or Uncle Tom's Cabin

Poster for a stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Starting 16 December 1852, the production is not "a mere Stage Version of the Tale, but a Play, in which free use has been made of [Stowe's] personages and most striking incidents." The broadside...

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Uncle Sam.

Sheet music cover depicting a male runaway slave, Uncle Sam. "The Great Slave Song, respectfully dedicated to Anderson, the fugitive slave & sung with immense success by T. Maclagan." Written by G. W. Hunt with music by Frederic Archer.

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