Details
Contributor Colburn, Helen M., approximately 1844-1912.
Title Monday morning or the tender passion. [graphic].
Publisher [Washington, D.C.] : [Mrs. Rollinson Colburn] , [1887]
Publisher D.C. Washington. 1887
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; mount 11 x 17 cm (4.5 x 6.5 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of a print drawn by Helen M. Colburn, daughter of New Jersey artist Rembrandt Lockwood, depicting an outdoor wash day. The figures are drawn with racist and caricatured features and mannerisms. Shows, in the background, in the right an African American woman bent over and with her hands in a wash tub. A basin and large ladle rest near the tub. Behind her, a sheet and stockings hang from a clothes line. In the left background, an African American woman, standing on the tops of her toes, pins a sheet to a clothesline. A wooden basket of laundry rests by her feet. A young African American girl with short hair peers at the woman hanging the wash from behind a hanging sheet. The women wear kerchiefs, shirtwaists with the sleeves rolled up, and long pleated skirts with aprons. Between the women, an African American man attired in a panama hat, a shirt, a cross tie, long jacket, and pants, stands, looking to the left and with his left hand on his hip, and holding a cane in his right hand. In the center foreground, two barefoot young African American boys face each other and dance. The boys are attired in long-sleeved blousy shirts and pants. One boy has his back to the viewer. The boy facing the viewer also wears a bucket hat. Robinson, married to Washington U.S. Treasury clerk Rollinson Colburn, lived in the Capitol between circa 1870 and her death in 1912. In 1887 eight of her works, some purported to based on her own eye-witness accounts during the 1870s, showing African American life in the city were published as a collectible series of photographs. Occassionally, Colburn described and signed her descriptions of the scenes on the versos of the photographs.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Date from copy right statement printed on mount: Copyright 1887.
Written in lower right of original print: Mrs. R. Colburn 1877.
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Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Purchased with the 2019 Junto Fund.
Subject African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American children -- Washington (D.C.)
African American men -- Washington (D.C.)
African American women -- Washington (D.C.)
Dance -- Washington (D.C.)
Laundry -- Washington (D.C.)
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Genre photographs -- 1880-1890.
Reproductions -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Events [P.2020.16.2]
Accession number P.2020.16.2