Thomas Houseworth
Sheet Music for "Good-Bye, God Bless You All" with Collaged Photo, 1878
Albumen print on letter-pressed folio
Overall 14 x 11 inches
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H.J. Montague was a noted English stage actor who extensively toured the United States. While touring the United States in 1878, he became grievously ill and died of a pulmonary...
H.J. Montague was a noted English stage actor who extensively toured the United States. While touring the United States in 1878, he became grievously ill and died of a pulmonary hemorrhage at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. His last words were, "It's no use; I am going, boys. God bless you all." These lines were memorialized in song, and the sheet music was published with different albumen portraits of Montague taken by the S.F. photographer Thomas Houseworth.