When The Moon Shines

American Mary Elizabeth Sugg American James D. Vaughan American Vernon Sugg McDonald American Bert Williams American George "Nash" Walker Alex Rogers The Attucks Music Publishing Company, American, founded 1904

1900

Medium: ink on paper
Genre: Sheet music
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Styles

sheet music

Tags

Minstrel (Music)

About

Sheet music for the song When The Moon Shines. The front cover for features an illustration of a country road running along a wood fence. Text box with black and white photographs appears in the bottom right corner. Inside the text box, there are two small circular black and white photographs of two African American men. Black type in box reads: [WHEN / THE MOON / SHINES / Introduced with pleasing effect in /WILLIAMS & WALKER'S / BIG PRODUCTION / WORDS BY / ALEX ROGERS / MUSIC BY / JAMES VAUGHAN / The ATTUCKS / MUSIC / PUBLISHING COMPANY / 1255 - 57 BROADWAY N.Y.]. Handwritten in ink, in the top left corner, is [Mrs. D.W. McDonald]. The interior of the sheet music has three pages of music bars and notes in black ink. The back cover of sheet music features sheet music for [“WHY ADAM SINNED”].