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Description: Cover for sheet music of the "The Hippopotamus Polka", published in the early 1850's (see en:Obaysch) by W. Hall & Son, 259 Broadway, New York. The song was by Louis St. Mars, while the illustration of the young lady dancing the polka with a hippo was by John H. Sherwin from the lithography studios of Napoleon Sarony
Title: Hippopotamus-polka-early1850s
Credit: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/music/sheet.html
Author: Napoleon Sarony
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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