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Jeanie with Light Brown Hair, by Stephen Foster
Photographer: N/a
Caption: Jeanie with Light Brown Hair, by Stephen Foster
Additional Description: One of Foster's most popular and enduring parlor songs is Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, written for his wife, Jane McDowall Foster. Foster had married McDowell in 1850 when his songwriting career was just taking off. The couple had one child, born nine months after their marriage, but soon drifted apart, and were separated when Foster wrote Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair in 1854. Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164191
File Size: 0.184 Megabytes

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