Slipping Out of Summer
Song - slips…? Broadside ballads…? I wasn’t sure what to call this genre of street literature, and all my references on this subject, such as Shepard’s HISTORY Of STREET LITERATURE [1973], are still in boxes. In either case, given their ephemeral nature, in my experience, they are somewhat uncommon. As I was unpacking a box the other day, I came across 19, a number of which were printed in San Francisco, ca the 1870s.
Enjoy.