| Ref No | MWT/MUS/1/0247 |
| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Title | How They Nurse The Baby. |
| Name of creator | Coborn, Charles, 1852-1945, performer |
| Date | 1897 |
| Extent | 1 sheet music |
| Description | Sheet music for piano and voice, titled "How They Nurse The Baby.", appearing as one sheet (2 pages total). The front cover depicts an illustration of Charles Coborn wearing a black suit, and holding a white cloth. The top left image is of a man holding a baby, who is attacking the man's face; the image below is of a woman holding the baby, and is shouting at the baby who is crying, subtitled "When Mamma Is Out."; the image below is of a man wearing a monocle and holding the baby away from him at arm's lenght; the final image below is of a man smoking a pipe and cuddling up to the baby. |
| Notes | The sheet has a large rip in the bottom right corner, with some paper missing |
| There is an annotation in pencil on the first page, reading "COBORN" |
| There are several patches of discolouration on both pages |
| There are tears and rips around the edge of the sheet |
| There are indentation marks where the sheet has been folded |
| Subject | Musical Theatre |
| Music Hall |
| Comedy |
| Songs |
| PhysicalDescription | 357 x 259 mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper |
| Related Person | Lester, J. H., writer and composer |
| Banks, H. G., illustrator |
| Related Organisation | Francis, Day & Hunter, publisher |
| T. B. Harms & Co., publisher |
| Related Place | London |
| New York |
| Category | Sheet music |
| Access conditions | This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk). |
| Copyright | Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study. |
| Level | Item |