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Eighteen Original Negro Spirituals by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Object Details

Description
Thirty-two (32) page booklet of sheet music. The front cover features an image of Sister Rosetta Tharpe holding a guitar in a grayscale image centered on blue background. The title features above the graphic in blue text printed over a black background [Eighteen Original Negro Spirituals by Sister Rosetta Tharpe].Beneath the image is much smaller blue text printed over a black background which reads [Spirituals with an Original and Appealing Religious Quality Set Down/Exactly as Sung by SISTER THARPE Since Infancy in Negro Churches/All Over the Country]. The Mill Music logo is shown centered along the bottom edge to the left of the price, printed in black text in a white-square background [$1.25].
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Published by
Mills Music Incorporated, 1919 - 1965
Written by
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973
Date
1938
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gayle Wald
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
12 × 9 × 1/8 in. (30.5 × 22.9 × 0.3 cm)
Type
songbooks

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