Details
Creator Hall, Bernhard, 1859-1935, artist.
Contributor J. Hoover & Son, printer.
Title [Double-sided proof print containing a racist caricature of an African American mother and her children and a comic genre scene with a bookmaker] [graphic] / Bernhard Hall 1902.
Publisher Philadelphia : J. Hoover & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1905
Date 1905
Physical Description 2 prints on 1 sheet : chromolithograph mounted on cardboard ; sheet 26 x 41 cm (10 x 16 in.)
Description Left panel depicts an African American mother, portrayed in racist caricature, with her three children in the doorway of a home in the country. The mother, attired in a red headkerchief with white polka dots, a white shirt with pink polka dots and the sleeves rolled to the elbows, a green skirt, and a white apron with blue stripes, stands smiling with her arms crossed. Sitting in front of her are three young barefooted children attired in pink short-sleeved dresses. The children suck on the tubes of their nursing bottles. A small black dog, a cat with two kittens, and a pig gather and watch children. At the right of the door, a barrel rests under a drain pipe. A food tray lies nearby, and a horseshoe hangs above the door. The right panel shows "Joe McK.. Bookmak[er]" accepting bets, seated at his table, outside a stadium. The older white man bookie, attired in a gray bowler hat, a white collared shirt, a red polka dot vest, blue and white striped pants, and yellow shoes, smokes a cigar and accepts money from a young white man waiting at the head of the line. Also shows the backs of men leaving the bookie and headed toward the "Grand Stand" visible in the background.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1905 by J. Hoover & Son Phila.
Printed lower left corner: 2039.
Gift of S. Robert Teitelman, 2007.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American children -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American mothers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Bookmakers (Gambling)
Cats.
Dogs.
Eating & drinking.
Gamblers.
Racism in popular culture.
Stadiums.
Swine.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Comics -- 1900-1910.
Proofs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1905 Proof [P.2007.23.8]
Accession number P.2007.23.8