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Title Foh yo' birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin' foh you! [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph with cloth details ; sheet 13 x 11 cm (5 x 4.5 in.)
Description Birthday card depicting a racist caricature an African American girl standing as flowers grow over a fence and towards a house. Shows the African American girl portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in an orange dress with purple polka dots, blue shoes, and blue and orange bows in her hair. At her feet are yellow, purple, blue, and orange flowers. She speaks in the vernacular that the flowers are “climbing up de birfday fence,” which is the yellow fence depicted in the right. The flowers, made of cloth, grow over it and towards a house, which has flowers growing on the roof. The house is blue with green shutters that are falling apart.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Manuscript note on recto: Harold- Henry- Florence
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American girls -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Flowers.
Fences.
Houses.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Birthday cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Mixed media works -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Foh [P.2017.95.242]
Accession number P.2017.95.242