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Title Effect of the Fifteenth Amendment. [graphic]: Indignant mother, "Cum in out of dat mud right straight! Fust ting you'll know you'll be took for Irish chil'en!"
Publisher [United States], [ca. 1871]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1871
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; mount 11 x 17 cm (4.25 x 6.5 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of a drawing after a racist cartoon published in Harper's Bazar in 1871 alluding to the social and political tensions between Irish and African American people following passage of the right to vote amendment. Shows an African American woman, a broom in one hand, her other hand on her hip, at her front porch, watching her two sons playing in the dirt. The woman is portrayed in racist caricature and speaks in the vernacular. She has a rotund figure and is attired in a head kerchief, a button-down shirt, an ankle-length skirt, and an apron. Her children make a mud pie beside the porch and in front of a tall wooden fence. Another African American boy, attired in a broad-rimmed hat and slipper-like shoes too large for his feet, sits and balances himself on the fence. View also includes a dust pan, the edge of a bench, and a tall weed near the mother's feet.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from similar cartoon published in Harper's Bazar, March 4, 1871.
Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject United States. Constitution. 15th amendment.
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American mothers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States.
African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans.
Constitutional amendments -- United States.
Racism in popular culture.
Race relations.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cartoons (Commentary) -- 1870-1880.
Reproductions -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2015.29]
Accession number P.2015.29