Details
Title United we stand. Divided we fall [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; sheet 11 x 8 cm (4.5 x 3 in.)
Description Racist, satiric trade card specimen depicting in two panels an African American man knocking down two African American children eating a candy stick by opening the cellar doors they were sitting on. In the left panel, shows caricatures portrayed with exaggerated features of two barefooted African American children sitting on top of slanted cellar doors. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, and pants with suspenders, holds a striped candy stick in his mouth. In the right, the girl, attired in a bonnet and a dress, shares the same candy stick and sucks the opposite end in her mouth above the caption, “united we stand.” In the right panel, an African American man has come up from inside the cellar and stands holding both doors open in his hands. He is attired in a white shirt, a striped vest, striped pants, and a cap, and holds a pipe in his mouth. The boy has been thrown off of the door and lies in the left on the ground with the candy stick still in his mouth. The girl has also been flung from the top of the door and lies on the ground beside the cellar with only her feet and left hand visible, as the caption reads, “divided we fall.”
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American girls -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Basements.
Candy.
Doors & doorways.
Eating & drinking.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - United [P.2017.95.210]
Accession number P.2017.95.210