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Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour : tales of the time told in rhyme
- Title
- Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour : tales of the time told in rhyme / Maggie Pogue Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, Maggie Pogue.
- Publication
- [Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1910]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, M. P. Virginia dreams) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard, John M., active 1910
- Description
- 64 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 25 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Alternative Title
- Lyrics for the idle hour
- Tales of the time told in rhyme
- Subjects
- Note
- "Copyright, 1910 by John M. Leonard. Published 1910."--verso of title page.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
- Source (note)
- from Arthur A. Schomburg;
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- A dream -- When daddy cums from wuk -- I wish I was a grown up man -- The V.N. and C.I. -- Old man's soliloquy -- Krismas dinnah -- The negro has a chance -- De day befo' Thanksgibin' -- The story of Lovers Leap -- Why should the American Negro be proud? -- De Leap Yeah party -- What's mo' temptin' to de palate? -- Dat mule ob Brudder Wright's -- Sometimes -- To see ol' Booker T. -- Dedicated to Dr. W.H. Sheppard (the returned missionary, who spent twenty years in Africa) -- De wintah styles -- Ambition -- Christmas times -- De men folks ob today -- De people's literacy -- Superstitions -- Poet of our race (dedicated to the memory of Paul Laurence Dunbar) -- To Professor Byrd Prillerman (president of West Virginia Colored Institute) -- Sister Johnson's speech -- James Hugo Johnston -- The strawberry -- As we sow we shall reap -- What's de use ob wukin in the summer time at all -- The lost teddy bear -- Meal time -- Dedication day (read at the dedication of the new Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Staunton, Va.)
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, M. P. Virginia dreams)
- OCLC
- 6108333
- NYPGR6108333-B
- Author
- Johnson, Maggie Pogue.
- Title
- Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour : tales of the time told in rhyme / Maggie Pogue Johnson.
- Publisher
- [Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1910]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 811-J (accession no. B572206) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Source
- Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, M. P. Virginia dreams), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Leonard, John M., active 1910, copyright holder.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, M. P. Virginia dreams)*WIY 97-12