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[The love drop] [graphic].
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Contributor
Roseland, Harry Herman, 1866-1950, artist.
Title
[The love drop] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1903
Date
[ca. 1903]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 8 x 12 cm (3 x 5 in.)
Description
Racist post card depicting a genre scene of an African American woman fortune teller with three white women clients. Shows the elderly African American woman, attired in a red head kerchief, spectacles, a yellow shawl, a long-sleeved white dress, and a white apron, sitting on a green, wooden chair and tea reading. She pours tea out of a cup, and it drips into a small bottle. A saucer is on the floor below. The illustration’s title, “The Love Drop” refers to a tea leaf reader’s term for the last drop that falls from the cup, which would supposedly provide a glimpse into affairs of love. In the right, three young white women look on at the fortune teller. The blond-haired white woman, attired in a hat decorated with flowers and a long-sleeved pink dress with black decorative ribbons, sits on the floor on a rug with her parasol next to her. To her right, seated on a wooden chair, the brown-haired woman, attired in a hat decorated with a black ribbon and red flowers and a yellow dress with black lace accents, leans forward holding her parasol in both hands underneath her chin. Sitting on the chair’s right armrest, the blond-haired woman, attired in a green dress decorated with black ribbons, looks on. Behind the women is an open hearth with a black pot hanging above the fire. A clothesline of laundry hangs in front of the hearth. In the left is a table with a red tablecloth and a shelf above it that has a copper coffeepot and plate. There are cups and saucers on the floor and a round container possibly of red knitting. A chair is visible in the far right.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger based on P.2017.95.249.
Date inferred by the date of the original painting.
Text printed on verso: Post card. This side for address only. Place stamp here. United States, Cuba, Canada and Mexico one cent. Foreign two cents.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Fortune telling.
Love.
Older people.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1900-1910.
Post cards -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Love [P.2017.95.249a]
Accession number
P.2017.95.249a
In Collections
Gwen Goldman African Americana Trade Card Collection
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