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<mods:title>If the man in the moon were a coon</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Fisher, Fred</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type="date">1875-1942</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Murray, Elizabeth</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type="date">1870-1946</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bonita</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type="date">b. 1885</mods:namePart>
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<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:namePart>Carus, Emma</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type="date">1879-1927</mods:namePart>
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<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:namePart>Moore, George Austin</mods:namePart>
<mods:namePart type="date">b. 1876</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nichols Sisters</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Will Rossiter (Music publisher)</mods:namePart>
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<mods:typeOfResource>notated music</mods:typeOfResource>
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<mods:placeTerm type="text">Chicago, Ill.</mods:placeTerm>
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<mods:publisher>Will Rossiter</mods:publisher>
<mods:dateIssued>1905</mods:dateIssued>
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<mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</mods:languageTerm></mods:language>
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<mods:extent>8 p.</mods:extent> 
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<mods:note type="statement of responsibility">by Fred Fischer</mods:note>
<mods:note>For voice and piano</mods:note>
<mods:note>Cover title</mods:note>
<mods:note>At head of title on cover: "A combination of classical music &amp; comical words"</mods:note>
<mods:note>At head of caption title: "Biggest ’hit’ in 20 years"</mods:note>
<mods:note>As sung by: Elizabeth Murray, Ferguson &amp; Passmore, Emma Weston, and others</mods:note>
<mods:note>Variant advertisements</mods:note>
<mods:note>Cover illustration: drawing of elderly Black man entering chicken house, under a moon with a Black man's face; photograph of Elizabeth Murray</mods:note>
<mods:note>Also published for: violin, violoncello, trombone, cornet, and orchestra accompaniment</mods:note>
<mods:note>Library's cop. 1 has stamp on cover: H. Lockwood Abrams, Jr.</mods:note>
<mods:note>Cover photographs: cop. 2, the Nichols Sisters; cop. 3, Bonita; cop. 4, Emma Carus; cop. 5, George Austin Moore</mods:note>
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<mods:topic>African Americans</mods:topic>
<mods:topic>Songs and music</mods:topic>
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<mods:subject authority="lcsh">
<mods:topic>Popular music</mods:topic>
<mods:geographic>United States</mods:geographic>
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<mods:subject authority="lcsh">
<mods:geographic>Moon</mods:geographic>
<mods:topic>Songs and music</mods:topic>
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<mods:title>African American Sheet Music</mods:title>
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<mods:recordCreationDate encoding="marc">981204</mods:recordCreationDate>
<mods:recordIdentifier source="RPB">b27286770</mods:recordIdentifier>
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