This sheet music for the song “The Queen of Charcoal Alley” was written by Andrew B. Sterling and composed by Howard and Emerson. The music was originally published by T. B. Harms and Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1900, and appeared as a musical supplement to the “Philadelphia Press” on Sunday, November 25, 1900. The cover features an illustration of a well dressed African American couple with a poodle, and the illustration is framed with drawings of sunflowers.
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