Creator |
Keystone View Company. |
Contributor |
Singley, B. L. copyright holder. |
Title |
A "corner in cotton." [graphic]. |
Publisher |
Meadville, Pa; St. Louis, Mo.: Keystone View Company, manufacturers and publishers |
Publisher |
PA. Meadville. 1898 |
Date |
1898 |
Physical Description |
1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) |
Description |
Racist scene showing a young, African American couple (Ephraim and Dinah) seated next to each other, and flirting, in a small
clearing in a cotton field. The couple, their legs outstretched, leans back on two large baskets of picked cotton. The man
and woman smile at each other. The woman's head is tilted to her left and she uses the index finger of her right hand to touch
the chin of the man. The man is attired in a collarless, long-sleeve, light-color shirt, light-color pants, and worn boots.
The pants have frayed edges. The woman wears a light-colored, long sleeve shift dress, and heeled shoes. They each wear wide-brimmed
hats. A mass of cotton plants is visible in the background.
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Notes |
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1898, by B. L. Singley. |
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Title from item. |
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Title printed in five different languages, including Italian, French, and German, on verso. |
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Text printed on verso: Here it is in black and white. The negro and the cotton are as inseparable as the darky and the 'possum.
Colored labor clothes half the world, and half the world never gives it a thought nor a thank-you. But what care Ephraim and
Dinah what the world says or doesn't say? "In all ages every human heart is human." A corner in cotton is as palatial as a
corner in Windsor Castle or the White House, if love is there. Now, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, you negro writer of sparling verse,
here is a subject made to your hand.
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Curved buff mount with rounded corners. |
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Gift of David Long. |
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RVCDC |
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Description revised 2022. |
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Access points revised 2022. |
Biographical / historical note |
Keystone View Company was founded in 1892 by B.L. Singley, an amateur photographer from Meadville, Pennsylvania. Keystone
View Company was the leader in promoting stereographs for educational purposes. In 1912 the company purchased rights to some
Underwood & Underwood negatives for use in educational sets, and in 1922 purchased the remaining stock of Underwood materials.
The company remained in business until 1970.
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Subject |
African American couples -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Cotton industry. |
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Courtship. |
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Occupations and race. |
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Racism in popular culture. |
Genre |
Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900. |
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Genre photographs -- 1890-1900. |
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Stereographs -- 1890-1900. |
Printer |
Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd), copyright holder. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Keystone View Company - Portraits & Genre [P.2018.16.1] |
Accession number |
P.2018.16.1 |