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George Washington Dixon singing "Zip Coon" | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
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Zip Coon on the go-ahead principle. L. Deming, No. 61 Hanover Street, Boston - LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search
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Zip Coon : a famous comic song / as sung by all the celebrated comic singers with wonderful applause ; composed and arranged for the piano forte. - Yale University Library
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