Details
Title Customer. "Rather cool weather Pete, for a close crop like that." Pete. "Can't help it Boss---the proprietor says long hairs gits in de wittles." [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 18 x 9 cm (3.75 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Reproduction of a drawing of a racist, comic scene showing an African American waiter serving a bearded, white man seated at a restaurant table. The African American waiter is depicted with exaggerated features, including an oblong-shaped head. He wears a black suit, a white shirt with a high collar, and an apron around his waist. The waiter stands beside the table that is covered in a tablecloth. He rests his left hand on it and holds a bowl of soup on a saucer in his right. The customer, attired in a tuxedo, rests his left arm near a pitcher, glass, napkin and condiment display on the table. In the background, a bald man, sits and eats at a nearby table. Paneling adorns the walls of the restaurant on which the morphed shadow of the waiter is visible.
Notes Title printed on negative.
Yellow mount with curved corners.
Date inferred from attire of depicted figures.
Gift of David Long.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Eating & drinking.
Waiters.
Racism in popular culture.
Restaurants.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.8]
Accession number P.2018.16.8