I have one song sheet I've been sitting on for a long time. It was written as a promotional number for a pharmaceutical company (which still exists) near the beginning of the 20th century. The whole thing is a farrago of racist stereotypes from beginning to end - the worst aspects of the blackface minstrel tradition with essentially zero musical or poetic quality to redeem it.

But it seems to me it ought be more widely known, simply because of what it says about how companies like that promoted their wares.

I still don't like the idea that somebody might pick the thing up as originally intended.

Maybe I ought to upload the scanned image of the music sheets to my site, without transcribing them?