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"How do debble does dey make a bicycle?" = Como diablos se hacen los bicírculos? [graphic].
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Creator
Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Contributor
Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Title
"How do debble does dey make a bicycle?" = Como diablos se hacen los bicírculos? [graphic].
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman ; Sold only by Underwood & Underwood
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1891
Date
1891
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description
Racist, genre scene showing an African American boy, seated on his knees, in a room with a dirt floor and strewn rubbish. His right hand is raised to his head, and he holds a tire pump and broken bicycle tire in his left hand. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and suspenders looks down with a look of anguish at the rubber tire pulled off of its hub. Behind the boy is a cot covered with haphazard-placed mounds of bedding. To his left, a cat stands in front of a wooden chair on which an empty glass bottle rests. Scene also includes a wooden storage cabinet in the right.
Notes
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1891 by Stohmeyer & Wyman.
Curved buff mount with rounded corners.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Gift of David Long.
Subject
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bicycles.
Cats.
Maintenance & repair.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Genre photographs -- 1890-1900.
Printer
Underwood & Underwood, distributor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - misc. photo. - Strohmeyer & Wyman [P.2018.16.5]
Accession number
P.2018.16.5
In Collections
African American History Photographs
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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