Figure 14.1: The cover art for this early edition of “Oh! Susanna” shows Edwin P. Christy, founder of the Christy Minstrels, at the top of the page and scenes from a minstrel show—including the whole line of performers—below. At the bottom of the page is a list of songs performed by Christy’s troupe.

Figure 14.2: The imprint is still visible from the lithographic stone used to make the covers of these two nearly identical early printings of “Oh! Susanna.” (See Figure 14.3 for the other printing.) The ink on the copy in Figure 14.3 is much lighter, indicating that it was made after other copies were made and not long before the ink was probably reapplied to the stone.

Figure 14.3: The imprint is still visible from the lithographic stone used to make the covers of these two nearly identical early printings of “Oh! Susanna.” (See Figure 14.2 for the other printing.) The ink on this copy is much lighter, indicating that it was made after other copies were made and not long before the ink was probably reapplied to the stone.

Figure 14.4: An early print of “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” published by Firth, Pond & Co. This lithographic cover is one of the earliest prints of the piece. Besides the cover, the print in Figure 14.5 is identical to this one; all of the inside pages were printed from the same engraved plates. For an unknown reason Firth, Pond & Co. had to have the cover redone. The lithographic artist copied the original as closely as possible (see Figure 14.5).

Figure 14.5: Remake of the cover to an early print of “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” published by Firth, Pond & Co. Besides the cover, this print is identical to the original; all of the inside pages were printed from the same engraved plates. For an unknown reason Firth, Pond & Co. had to have the cover redone. The lithographic artist copied the original (see Figure 14.4) as closely as possible.