Delehanty & Hengler's New and original song and dance. Love among the roses. Sambo's invitation / J.E. Banu...(?) – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Delehanty & Hengler's New and original song and dance. Love among the roses. Sambo's invitation / J.E. Banu...(?). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Delehanty & Hengler's New and original song and dance. Love among the roses. Sambo's invitation / J.E. Banu...(?)
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The cover advertises "Sambo's Invitation" as a "new and original song and dance" performed by Delehanty and Hengler, and it pairs that title with the sentimental "Love among the roses." Sheet music like this, published around 1869, used striking images to sell songs to home pianists, and this one draws on the minstrel tradition, in which Black figures were shown with exaggerated features and comic dialect for white audiences. Today it is most useful as evidence of how Black Americans were stereotyped in popular entertainment after the Civil War, rather than as a neutral scene of courtship.
| Created / published | Published by G.D. Russell & Company, c1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Music title pages 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | African Americans--1860-1870. Courtship--1860-1870. Cupids--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,278 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-183856 |
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