Mister your room rent's due
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Item data
Title
Mister your room rent's due
Collection
American popular songs
Sheet music, 1898
Names
Grant, Burt (Lyricist)
Bowman, Elmer (Composer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1898
Place: New York
Publisher: F.A. Mills
Library Location
Subjects
Songs
Boardinghouses -- United States
Eating & drinking
Older African American women
African American business enterprises
African Americans
Businesswomen
Lease and rental services
Rent -- 1880-1889
Man-woman relationships
Interpersonal conflict
Genres
Notes
Content: On cover: Black man at the dinner table being asked for rent (cartoon).
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Burt Grant ; music by Elmer Brown.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 score (8 p.) ; 35 cm.
Languages
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21760359
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 80a03500-c593-012f-fc41-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1898
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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Mister your room rent's due" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1898. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a03500-c593-012f-fc41-58d385a7bc34
APA format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1898). Mister your room rent's due Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a03500-c593-012f-fc41-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Mister your room rent's due" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/80a03500-c593-012f-fc41-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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