| Creator |
Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917, artist. |
| Contributor |
Currier & Ives, publisher. |
| Title |
"The Freedman's Bureau." [graphic] / Thos. Worth. |
| Publisher |
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1868 |
| Date |
1868 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand colored lithograph ; sheet 40 x 30 cm (15.75 x 12 in.) |
| Description |
Visual pun on the Freedman's Bureau, a benevolent government organization, which aided formerly enslaved African Americans
in the South by providing food, housing, and jobs, as well as establishing schools, hospitals, and a court system. Depicts
a simply furnished attic room where an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, ties his tie as he stands beside
his bed and before his dresser/bureau. Atop the bureau, which has its top drawer open, is a stand with a broken mirror upon
which you see the man's reflection. A portrait of Lincoln and a bow and fiddle hang on the wall. His overcoat and hat rest
on a chair with a broken back behind him.
|
| Is referenced by |
Weitenkampf, p. 155 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives in the Clerk's
Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
|
|
Purchase 1968. |
|
RVCDC |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
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.
|
| Biographical / historical note |
Worth was a comic and genre artist whose popular work was published by the lithographic firm Currier & Ives. |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands |
|
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Clothes chests -- United States. |
|
Freedmen -- United States. |
|
Neckties. |
|
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
|
Free men -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Genre |
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870. |
|
Political cartoons -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870. |
|
Puns -- 1860-1870. |
| Printer |
Currier & Ives, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - 1868-2W [7687.F] |
| Accession number |
7687.F |
