Content: Cover design by Starmer includes a flora pattern.
Content: On cover: Sung with unbounded success by the sweet singer, Miss Minnetta Davenport. Cover includes photograph of Minetta Davenport.
Content: Summary: The song are the words a wife says to her husband as she prepares to leave him; she acknowledges they couldn't get along and bears no grudge, but asks that the husband remind the baby of her.
Statement Of Responsibility: words and music by Dave Marion.

Physical Description

Extent: 6 p. ; 36 cm.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b10826013
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21736880
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b21738653
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ea4fe9d0-c595-012f-de3c-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

Date Issued

1899

Cite this item

MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Your promise keep for baby's sake" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1899. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ea4fe9d0-c595-012f-de3c-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1899). Your promise keep for baby's sake Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ea4fe9d0-c595-012f-de3c-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Your promise keep for baby's sake" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ea4fe9d0-c595-012f-de3c-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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