TY - SER
KW - Native Americans
KW - flatboats
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - slavery
KW - Allegheny Portage Railroad
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - Lieve (Olivia Pise)
KW - William Foster (1779-1855)
KW - Eliza T. Foster (1788-1855)
KW - Christy Minstrels
KW - Knights of the S.T.
KW - composers
KW - minstrels
KW - "Old Dog Tray"
KW - Stephen Foster (1826-64)
KW - Black Americans
KW - steamboats
AU - Claire Lee Purdy
AU - Dorothea Cooke Gramatky
AB - A novelized biography of Stephen Foster (1826-1864), the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The book includes songs like “Oh, Susannah” and “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.”
C1 - 1820s-60s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Ohio River; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Youghiogheny River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Monongahela House; Lawrenceville; North Side; Butler County; Harmony; Washington County; Canonsburg; Jefferson College; Westmoreland County; Greensburg
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - A novelized biography of Stephen Foster (1826-1864), the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The book includes songs like “Oh, Susannah” and “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.”
PB - Julian Messner
PP - New York
PY - 1940
RN - Claire Lee Purdy (1906-56) was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and earned her BA in 1929 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A teacher, she wrote for children eight biographical novels about musicians like Foster, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Gilbert and Sullivan. She died in Los Angeles. Dorothea Cooke Gramatky (1908-2001), born in Los Angeles, studied at Chouinard Art Institute. She was an illustrator and watercolor painter.
EP - 236 p.
TI - He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster
ER -