References

[i] See images on pages 216 and 219 in: Virginia Savage McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 216-19, 222.

[ii] Morrison Foster, Biography, Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster, (Pittsburgh: Percy F. Smith, 1896), quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1944), 10.

[iii] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 11-12.

[iv] “American Eden” is a term used by historian Ken Emerson to describe Pittsburgh as perceived by the Fosters in the early 19^th century in: Ken Emerson, Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 17; John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster: America’s Troubadour, (New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1943), 8, 12-15; Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, 630; JoAnne O’Connell, The Life & Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man behind “Swanne River,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “My Old Kentucky Home”, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 21.

[v] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, 630-31; John Tasker Howard, Stephen Foster: America’s Troubadour, 358; Mark Houser, “This Old Pittsburgh House: The Composer’s House”, pittsburghmagazine.com, Pittsburgh Magazine, February 6, 2019, https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/this-old-pittsburgh-house-the-composers-house/.

[vi] Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, 13, 630-663; “Sounds of America Gallery”, The Henry Ford, accessed December 20, 2021, https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/15686/.

[vii] Eliza C. Foster, “Sketches and Incidents of Pittsburgh”, Foster Hall Collection, quoted in Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 1, 26, 28; Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family, Vol. 2, 38.

[viii] Stephen Foster’s Account Book, 41, 1837-1863, Foster Hall Collection, A230; Conversion figures obtained from: “How much is a dollar from the past worth today?”, Measuring Worth, accessed December 21, 2021, https://measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/; “Farewell! Old Cottage”, Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed December 22, 2021, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm; Ken Emerson, Doo-dah!, 169; William A. Austin, “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks at Home”: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours, Second Edition, (Urbana, Il.: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 119.

[ix] “Old Folks at Home”, Stephen Foster Lyrics, accessed December 22, 2021, https://sites.pitt.edu/~amerimus/lyrics.htm; Eliza Foster to Charlotte Foster, November 2, 1821, Foster Hall Collection, C393.