Close-up, Marsh Mellow Munsey. Here are a few highlights from the J. A. Sloan antique sheet music collection. My father has had a life-long admiration for early African Americans and their culture and music, and is quick to inform people that it was black Africans who invented the banjo and who brought it to this country on slave ships. Some of these images are politically incorrect now, but we steadfastly maintain that changing or covering up history causes immeasurable harm to mankind. Many of these pictures and the associated music are representative of a specific bygone era in which terrible injustices were sanctioned. But we think the images are beautiful and represent the foundation upon which an invaluable part of the American social fabric has been built. Just like George W. Bush's comment that it is impossible to imagine America without New Orleans, it is also impossible to imagine America without the mistakes of its past. Bad or good, this history is a part of what we are now, and that fact gives it great value.
"Tired Tim" written by Victor Norman, copyright USA 1903.	"Uncle Sam (Every Man Will See You Through)" by John C. Spray, copyright USA 1918.	"Dandy Coon" by Hermann E. Darewski, copyright USA 1903.
"Plantation Songs (and Jubilee Hymns)" a collection by assorted composers, copyright USA 1881.	"Marsh Mellow Munsey" by T. W. Thurban, copyright USA 1903.	"Oh! Miss Malinda" by T. W. Thurban, copyright USA 1911.
	"Check and Double Check with Amos and Andy" by Bert Kalmer and Harry Ruby, copyright USA 1930.