Dancing With Ma Baby: Museum Object and Cultural History
Dancing With Ma Baby: Date: 1900. Composed by: Bert R. Anthony, American. Published by: G. H. Munroe & Co..
The object in the museum catalogue
Sheet music for the song Dancing With Ma Baby. The front cover features an illustration of a caricatured African American man and woman dancing. The man is wearing a tuxedo and the woman is wearing a yellow dress. The front cover has a yellow background. White and black type on the front cover reads: [BERT R. ANTHONY'S COMPOSITIONS. / DANCING WITH MA BABY / SCHOTTISCHE. / 5 / by BERT R. ANTHONY. / COMPOSER OF "A WARM RECEPTION." / TWO STEP & CAKE WALK / BAND. / ORCHESTRA. / TWO MANDOLINS. / GUITAR / TWO BANJOS. / PIANO ACCOMP.] There is a publisher’s logo on the bottom of the cover that reads: [Published by / G H. / MUNROE / & CO. / CHAS. SHEARD & CO. LONDON. ENG. / WHALEY, ROYCE & CO., TORONTO, CAN.]. There is a purple stamp below the logo that reads: [MUSIC DEPT. / HALES.].The interior of the sheet music contains four pages of music bars and notes in black ink. The back cover has sheet music in black ink for several additional shorter songs.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1900
- Composed by: Bert R. Anthony, American
- Published by: G. H. Munroe & Co.
- Owned by: Vernon Sugg McDonald, American, 1906 - 1982
- Owned by: Mary Elizabeth Sugg, American, 1839 - 1915
- Type: sheet music
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
- Place collected: Sugg McDonald House, Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed: Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blackface
- Topic: Minstrel (Music)
- Topic: Stereotypes
- Object number: 2014.275.12
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Sylvia Alden Roberts
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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