Diorama of Stephen Foster's Song "Oh, Susanna" - 1848 at the Stephen Foster Memorial

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Diorama of Stephen Foster's Song "Oh, Susanna" at the Stephen Foster Memorial on the Suwannee River White Springs, Florida 1848 W-8

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"Oh, Susanna"-1848- This diorama de picts a western plains scene showing the pioneers and their Conestoga wagons. This song was published near the time gold was discovered in California. One year after it's publication, the pioneers, or forty-niners were singing it as their theme song along the covered wagon trails. 3C-H789