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 - Helen Boyd Higgins
AU - Clotilde Embree Funk
AB - A novelized biography of Stephen Foster, the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The novel focuses on Foster's Lawrenceville boyhood, his minstrel shows, and how he published his first song at 18.
C1 - 1820s-60s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Ohio River; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Lawrenceville; North Side; Butler County; Harmony
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Historical
CY - Indianapolis
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, the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The novel focuses on Foster's Lawrenceville boyhood, his minstrel shows, and how he published his first song at 18.
PB - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
PP - Indianapolis
PY - 1944
RN - Helen Boyd Higgins (1892-1971) wrote many books for children about well-known Americans. Clotilde Embree Funk (1893-1991), born in Princeton, Indiana and educated at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, illustrated more than 60 children’s books.
EP - 200 p.
TI - Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
ER -