Details
Creator Universal Stereoscopic View Company.
Contributor Young, R. Y., copyright holder.
Title "Does you love me hun?" [graphic].
Publisher Chicago : Universal Sterescopic View Co., 2210 State Street, Chicago
Publisher ILL. Chicago. 1898
Date 1898
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Racist stereograph of an outdoor caricatured, genre scene showing an African American man woman couple seated together on a tree swing in a clearing in the woods. The woman sits on the lap of the man. Her left leg dangles. Her right cheek rests against his left one. She smiles and looks out. His eyes are turned toward hers. The woman wears a patterned, dark-colored shirtwaist, a floral-patterned skirt, dark stockings, and boots. He wears a suit. Scene also includes leaves on the ground and trees and bushes in the background.
Notes Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1898, by R. Y. Young.
Title from item.
Curved buff mount with rounded corners.
Gift of David Long.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American couples.
Courtship.
Racism in popular culture.
Swings.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Genre photographs -- 1890-1900.
Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Printer Young, R. Y., copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - misc. photo - Universal [P.2018.16.7]
Accession number P.2018.16.7