All that can presently (August 2021) be gleaned about Bessie Tannehill from sheet music covers and by Internet searching is that she has been featured on just 2 works published between 1894 and 1901.
Of interest is The Moon and Crescent (1894) music by Paul Barnes, words by Louis Wesley and published by Cruger Bros, New York, USA. Her portrait is displayed on the sheet music cover.
A Park Theatre Boston notice for week of March 25 to March 30, 1889. announces the presentation of A Brass Monkey by Charles Hale Hoyt. Bessie Tannehill is listed among the participants including Charles Reed, George W Leslie, Tim Murphy, George A Beane, Alice Walsh, Hattie Waters and Fannie McIntyre.
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