'There aint no use to keep on hanging around', 1899. 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sheet Music Series of Original Songs Part VII; words and music by Irving Jones'. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

---

Size: 3726px × 4804px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1890s, 19th, 19th-century, african, african-american, afro-american, america, american, apparel, art, arts, black, body, building, buildings, century, check, checked, chequered, cigar, cigars, clenched, clothes, clothing, color, colour, concept, controversial, controversy, coon, country, derogatory, design, domestic, dress, entertainment, fashion, feist, female, fist, frank, frankenthaler, graphic, guy, hand, heritage, house, household, houses, implied, irving, jones, language, lettering, library, location, male, man, men, music, nineteenth, notated, nypl, offensive, parker, people, pin, print, public, racial, racism, racist, rolling, score, scores, sheet, smoking, song, states, stereotype, text, trousers, united, usa, vaudeville, window, woman, women, york