'Close your dreamy eyes (for Mammy Lou)', 1901. 'Refined plantation lullaby, sung with great success by Josephine Gassman'. 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.

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