On de oder side of Jordon [handbill]

$125 · Offered by Bolerium Books

[Philadelphia]: Thomas M. Scroggy, publisher, card and fancy job printer, [185-]. 6x9.25 inch handbill printed one side, creased, closed tear at bottom. Song in stereotypical Black dialect. Wolf, "American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides, 1850-1870," no. 1742. The first stanza comments on a proposed Prohibition ordinance: "Oh! de..... More

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