Adah Richmond's Songs: Only in Fun.

(Burlesque) (Sheet Music) French, Arthur (Lyricist) and R.S Crandall (Composer). Adah Richmond's Songs: Only in Fun. Cincinnati, OH: F.W. Helmick, [1876?]. 13-⅛ x 10-¼ in., 5 pp.; possibly disbound; wrapper creased but fresh, with unidentified photographic portrait of Adah Richmond tipped in, very good. In the late 1870s singer and actress Adah Richmond formed a nationally touring burlesque company. In “No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance”: A History of the American Musical Theater, the authors credit Richmond's company with the “beginning of American burlesque