Driven From Home As Sung by DS Wambold At the San Francisco Minstrels.
"A Child of Misfortune, I'm Driven from Home" [Broadside]. [Ballads]. San Francisco Minstrels. [Hays, William Shakespeare (1837-1907), Composer]. Driven From Home. As Sung by D.S. Wambold, At the San Francisco Minstrels. New York: H. De Marsan, Publisher, [c.1870]. 10" x 6-1/4" (25.7 x 16.2 cm) broadside, three stanzas of verse in single column below headline, text surrounded by ornate woodcut border. Moderate toning, light foxing, minor edgewear, horizontal fold lines with minor creasing along them. Good. $100. * Along with Charles Backus [1831-1883] and Billy Birch [1831-1897], David S. Wambold [1836-1889] was a member of the San Francisco Minstrels, a performance group founded in San Francisco in the mid-1860s. The group, which sought to lampoon the "elitist" artistic tastes of San Francisco society, went onto great national success and were favorites of Mark Twain. As the name suggests, they performed in blackface and specialized in blackface minstrelsy, but as our broadside indicates, not all of their content was related to African American culture and some performances were more general or even took shots at white society. OCLC locates 1 copy of this edition (Middle Tennessee State University). This edition not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.
Price: $100.00
Book number 83369