Content: On cover: Sung by Lew Dockstader in Primrose & Dockstader's Mammouth Minstrels. Published by permission of Sol Bloom, owner of copyright.
Content: Printed as part of the New york Journal Advertiser, Sunday, Sept. 8, 1901.
Content: Blind stamp of upper right hand corner of cover: Fred Glasson, Fred Library, 344 Dewey Avenue, Lakewood, N.J.
Content: Cover contains a photograph of Lew Dockstader gesticulating in blackface.
Statement Of Responsibility: composed by Irving Jones.
Date: Copyright date: 1891

Physical Description

Extent: 1 score (6 p.) ; 31 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bfec95c0-c58d-012f-e884-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

Date Issued

1891

Cite this item

MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "St. Patrick's Day is a bad day for coons" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1891. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfec95c0-c58d-012f-e884-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1891). St. Patrick's Day is a bad day for coons Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfec95c0-c58d-012f-e884-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "St. Patrick's Day is a bad day for coons" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfec95c0-c58d-012f-e884-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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