Home Songster, A Collection of Patriotic and Popular Songs and Marching Choruses

Milwaukee: Geo. Brunder, [1883].

Softcover. Good. 13 cm (ca. 5"),  pp 110 , [2] (index); original sewn wrappers, with decorative initials and wood-engraved illustrations in the text.  Final leaf (index of songs) and back cover are damaged, with some loss, chipping to corners of front cover; otherwise very good. An uncommon collection, containing 87 songs on a variety of patriotic, political and sentimental themes. Includes many Civil War songs, mourning songs, a Garfield campaign song. A great women's suffrage song features an exchange between male and female choruses. An excerpt: Boys:  See, young woman, just look here; / Your home is your true place;  / You never ought, from out your sphere, / To show your pretty face. / Don't you see, you ought to knit and sew, / And meek and humble be? / If from your sphere you wander so / You'll get no help from me.  Girls: Joseph! You cant help yourself, / Our cause is speeding on; / And you'll be laid upon the shelf, / When woman's rights are won. When our President is Katy fair, / And Mary's eyes of blue / Beam sweetly from the Mayor's chair, / They'll see no place for you! The publisher, George Brumder (1839-1910) was a German immigrant who opened a bookstore in Milwaukee in 1864 and later added a small printing department and bindery. From the 1870s to the 1910s he published German-language newspapers in several Wisconsin cities, as well as in Chicago and Lincoln, Nebraska.  We find one copy of this title listed in OCLC, at the San Francisco Public Library.

Item #21644

Price: $100.00