Details
Creator Beeler, Charles H. engraver.
Contributor Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 ill.
Title The holiday dance [graphic] / Stephens.
Publisher [Philadelphia: s.n]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. c1852
Date [1878]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 11 x 8 cm. (4.25 x 3.25 in)
Description Set on a plantation, this merry scene portrays a harvest dance. A man and a woman dance bare-foot to the music of a fiddler, who is perched high upon a stool. Others look on. A young man kneels in the foreground, his straw hat and hoe lying on the ground. In the background, two stocky, resolute-looking white women observe the festivities. Both wear kerchiefs, the ties of which, in one case, resemble devil's horns.
Is part of Peterson, Charles J. (Jacobs), 1819-1887. Cabin and Parlor. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Stereotyped by George Charles. Printed by King & Baird, c1852.
Notes Plate at the front of Charles Peterson's The Cabin and Parlor: or, Slaves and Masters (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Stereotyped by George Charles. Printed by King & Baird, c1852), np.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Plantation life -- Southern States.
Harvest festivals -- Southern States.
Slaves -- Dance.
Slaves -- Social life and customs -- Southern States.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1870-1880.
Book illustrations -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 2 Wright 1878a 10231.D np
Accession number 10231.D