1. Creator/Author:
  2. E. Bowers, Esq. (2)

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.