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Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title The Salt River gazette---extra, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1867. [graphic] : The Great Negro Party--born, 1856--died Oct. 8, 1867.
Publisher [Philadelphia?] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date [1867]
Physical Description 2 prints : wood engraving ; sheet 32 x 24 cm (12.5 x 9.25 in.)
Description Cartoon publicizing the death of the "Great Negro Party" (i.e., Republican Party) as a result of the defeat of several Republican candidates to Democrats in the Philadelphia local elections of 1867. Depicts a series of racist captioned vignettes and caricatures. Includes the head of an African American man above a coffin inscribed with the life and death dates of the party (1856-Oct. 8, 1867); “a Scene at the Broad St. League House” depicting a white man minister forced to perform an interracial marriage between a white woman and an African American man; and a scene entitled "The Work of Congress repudiated by the People" showing an African American man lounging and watching white men labor to pay their taxes. Also includes an African American man dandy commenting in the vernacular on his making electors sick "dis time"; and a scene titled "Statue to be erected in front of the Union League House" showing the sculpture of an older African American woman on a ragged horse. The African American dandy caricature originally appeared as an illustration titled "S.S. Sanford in One of his Great Delineations of Ethiopian Character" in "Our Day," an 1860 circular that advertised his Sanford Opera House. The statue caricature originally appeared in the "Original Comicalities" section of the June 1854 edition of "Graham's Magazine" and was titled "Woolly Equestrian Statue of the late Mrs. Joyce Heth." Mrs. Heth, an early attraction of P.T. Barnum from 1835 until 1836, claimed that she was over 100 years old and a nanny to George Washington.
Is referenced by Weitenkampf, p. 154
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of views of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania views and political miscellany. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Heth, Joice, -1836.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Coffins.
Dandies.
Elections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Equestrian statues.
Miscegenation.
Older people.
Race relations -- United States.
Racism in popular culture.
Multiracial personal relationship.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 1867 -- Humor.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1860-1870.
Wood engravings -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| political cartoons - 1867-1W [5759.F; (2)1322.F.77]
Accession number 5759.F
(2)1322.F.77