| Contributor |
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, artist. |
|
L. Prang & Co., publisher. |
| Title |
Cartes de visite reproductions of "Campaign Sketches" [graphic] / [Designed and drawn on stone by Winslow Homer] |
| Publisher |
[Boston?] : [publisher not identified] |
| Publisher |
MASS. Boston. 1863 |
| Date |
[ca. 1863] |
| Physical Description |
6 photographs : albumen on card mounts ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
| Description |
Series of reproductions of lithographs of military life "sketched on the spot" by Homer and originally published by L. Prang
& Co. in 1863. Includes "A Pastime," "The Coffee Call", and "Our Jolly Cook" showing white men soldiers gathered around camp
fires to play cards; get coffee; and watch the African American man camp hand, portrayed as a racist caricature, dance. Also
shows white men soldiers "Foraging" as they round up a cow on a homestead; the "Baggage Train" with two African American camp
hands on the back of a conestoga wagon; and "The Letter for Home" showing a white woman volunteer assist an injured white
man soldier in the hospital to write a letter.
|
| Notes |
Title and date based on the L. Prang & Co. publication in 1863. |
|
Three of the images signed by artist: Homer del. |
|
Created postfreeze. |
|
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. |
|
Original lithographs described in Katherine McClinton's The chromolithographs of Louis Prang (New York, C. N. Potter distributed
by Crown Publishers, 1973), p. 144-147.
|
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RVCDC |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
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Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War. |
| Subject |
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Carts & wagons -- United States. |
|
Dance -- United States. |
|
Racism in popular culture. |
|
Soldiers -- United States. |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African American, participation. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life. |
|
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel. |
| Genre |
Cartes de viste -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Homer - Caricatures & cartoons - Homer [5780.F.52i; 53b, d, g, i & n] |
| Accession number |
5780.F.52i |
|
5780.F.53b |
|
5780.F.53d |
|
5780.F.53g |
|
5780.F.53i |
|
5780.F.53n |
