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Description

Title: Wanki Fongo, or, Chief of the Yankee Doodles
Alternative Title: Chief of the Yankee Doodles
Contributor: Birt, T., printer.
Published / Created: [approximately 1828]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed by T. Birt, wholesale and retail, 10, Great St. Andrew-Street, Seven Dials, London
Description: Caption title below woodcut.
In verse.
Text in two columns. First line: About five hundred years ago, there lived (at least folks tell us so) one Wanki Fongo ...
A comic folk song about the wedding of Wanki Fongo Chi Chou Chu, Chief of the Yankee Doodles.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] page) : 26 x 19 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 763 828 W187

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Ballads
Songs
Broadside poems
Woodcuts
Material: 1 woodcut ;
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Subjects: Blacks

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 99160217373408651
Object ID (OID): 33117811

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