John T. Rutledge

Timeline of works

  • 1875
    As Pretty as a Little Butterfly. Double Song and Dance.
    Place & Publisher F.W. Helmick, 278 West Sixth Street Cincinnati, O.
    Subjects:Courtship & love, Singing, Dancing
  • 1876
    Nobody's Darling But Mine.
    Place & Publisher Oliver Ditson & Co., 451 Washington St. Boston
    Subjects:Fences, Portraits, Dwellings, Roofs, Country life
  • 1876
    Happy Times in Dixie Fo' De War. Plantation Song and Chorus.
    Place & Publisher John Church & Co. Cincinnati
    Subjects:Emancipation, Plantations, Caricatures, Ethnic stereotypes, Enslaved persons, Courtship & love, Contentment, Dialects, Minstrel shows, Slavery, Cotton plantations
  • 1876
    Save the Sweetest Kiss For Me. Tenth Edition.
    Place & Publisher Jesse French, 85 & 87 Church St. Nashville, Tenn.
    Subjects:Country life, Love
  • 1876
    "My Ole Home in Alabam' Fo' De War."
    Place & Publisher G.D. Russell & Company, 126 Tremont St. Boston
    Subjects:Time, Dogs, Fantasy, Aged persons, Ethnic stereotypes, Freed persons, Emotion--pain, Barrels, Dialects, Couples, Freedmen, Minstrel shows, Free African Americans, Caricatures
  • 1877
    De Banjo am de Instrument for Me. Song and Chorus.
    Place & Publisher Thos. P.I. Magoun Bath, Me.
    Subjects:Ethnic stereotypes, Deathbeds, Enslaved persons, Dancing, Barrels, Courtship & love, Dialects, Musicians, Minstrel shows, Slavery, Singing, Caricatures
  • 1877
    Tally One For Me. Base Ball Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher F.W. Helmick, No.50 West Fourth Street Cincinnati, O.
    Subjects:Baseball fields, Crowds, Athletes, Courtship & love, Marriage, From the writings of Lester Levy, Grace Notes in American History (Lester Levy)
  • 1877
    Tally One For Me. Base Ball Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher F.W. Helmick, No.50 West Fourth Street Cincinnati, O.
    Subjects:Baseball fields, Crowds, Athletes, Courtship & love, Marriage
  • 1877
    Whisper You'll Be Mine, Love. Song and Chorus.
    Place & Publisher Ludden & Bates Savannah, GA
    Subjects:Love
  • 1878
    Say Your Prayers and Go To Sleep. Song, Duett & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher W.L. Thompson & Co. East Liverpool, Ohio
    Subjects:Families, Children praying, Light fixtures
  • 1878
    Remember the Old Folks at Home. Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher The Thompson Music Co. Chicago
    Subjects:Portraits, Families, Aged persons, Human life cycle
  • 1878
    I'm Going Back to Alabam' to Die. Plantation Melody. Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher W.L. Thompson & Co. East Liverpool, Ohio
    Subjects:Log cabins, Homecomings, Plantations, Caricatures, Ethnic stereotypes, Aged persons, Travel, Enslaved persons, Dialects, Bodies of water, Minstrel shows, Slavery, Farming, Children, Farm houses, Cotton plantations
  • 1878
    Say Your Prayers and Go To Sleep. Song, Duett & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher W.L. Thompson & Co. East Liverpool, Ohio
    Subjects:Families, Children praying, Light fixtures
  • 1879
    I Wouldn't Believe Him, Would You?
    Place & Publisher W.C. Woodward & Co., 269 1/2 Main St. Memphis, Tenn.
    Subjects:Couples, Moonlight, Flowers, Love
  • 1879
    35th Thousand. Let Your Tears Kiss the Flowers On My Grave. A Beautiful Song & Chorus.
    Place & Publisher H.G. Hollenberg Memphis
    Subjects:Graves, Spires, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Grief, Prayer, Love
  • 1881
    The Latest Great Success. The Picture I Keep Next My Heart.
    Place & Publisher Reinhardt & Rutledge, 357 Main Street Memphis, Tenn.
    Subjects:Mothers & children, Death, Grief, Keepsakes, Photographs
  • 1882
    Pocket's Empty, Friends are Gone.
    Place & Publisher H.G. Hollenberg Memphis & Little Rock
    Subjects:Savings & investments, Wealth, Poor persons
  • 1883
    An Old Faded Letter From Nell. Song and Chorus.
    Place & Publisher R. Dorman & Co., 244 Church St. Nashville, Tenn.
    Subjects:Attics, Correspondence, Couples, Keepsakes, Farewells, Unrequited love, Sadness