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[Parting scene; Old Kentucky Home] [graphic] / Kilburn & Cross ; Copeland '87.
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Creator
Kilburn & Cross.
Contributor
Copeland, Charles, b. 1858
Title
[Parting scene; Old Kentucky Home] [graphic] / Kilburn & Cross ; Copeland '87.
Publisher
[Boston: s.n]
Publisher
MA. Boston. 1888
Date
[1888]
Physical Description
1 print: photomechanical print; image 14 x 10 cm. (5.5 x 4 in)
Description
This parting scene illustrates a verse from Foster's song. Standing on the front porch of the old Kentucky home, a black woman cries into a handkerchief as she watches a black man walking away. He is followed by another man on a horse.
Is part of
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. My old Kentucky home. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street, 1888.
Notes
Plate in Stephen Collins Foster's My Old Kentucky Home (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street, 1888), n.p.
The following verse is printed on the opposite page: "The time has come when the darkeys have to part, -- / Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!"
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Daily Life.
Subject
Slaves -- Domestic life.
African American families.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- 1880-1890.
Book illustrations -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1888 Foster 70524.O n.p.
Accession number
70524.O
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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