California - New Years Song, 1876
"We also lost in death, the Mayor Of San Francisco City."
(California). Barry, Ned. NEW YEAR'S SONG, 1876. As Sung by Ned Barry, at Buckley's Varieties. (Caption title).
San Francisco, Bell & Company, [1875]. 4to. broadside. 275 x 115 mm., [10 7/8 x 4 inches]. Caption and verse within an ornamental border. Upper right corner and right edge ragged (though with still a good margin), otherwise very good.
Rare song sheet, written in eight stanzas, each with eight lines, separated by a chorus. "There was in Eighteen seventy-five/ In Mining Stocks a panic,/ The banker rushed around like mad,/ Like demons quite satanic,/ And holders of the 'Orphic' stock/ Had looks so pale and blank, sirs/ Despair, seized men with money in the California Bank sirs."
Bell & Company was a general publisher of songs and ballads, as well as booksellers, stationers, and periodical agents.
Not cited in NUC. OCLC turns up copies at UC Davis, Yale, UT Austin.