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How Are You Green-Backs!
- Creator:
- Wm. A. Pond & Co., Charles Glover, E. Bowers, Esq.
- Location:
- New York, New York
- Origin Date:
- 1863
- Materials:
- paper
- Item ID:
- 71.2009.083.0269
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
- Available for Viewing:
- No
- Category:
- Sheet Music
Description
This is a piece of sheet music for the song, “How Are You Green-Backs!” The cover features three illustrated bills of money at the center. The bills are green and black and have an image of a man, Dan Bryant, Columbia, and an American Eagle. “Dan Bryant’s Popular Comic Song How Are You Green-Backs! As Sung by Him with immense success at Bryant’s Minstrels, also by Mrs. John Wood, in the grand Fairy Extravaganza ‘Fair One With the Golden Locks’” is printed across the cover. 1 score ([2], 3-5, [1] p.) For voice and piano. Verses 3-4 printed as text on p. 5. Additional verses by G.W.H. Griffin printed as text on p. 5. First line of text: We're coming, Father Abram, one hundred thousand more. First line of chorus: With our promise to pay. Part of The Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum.