Details
Title The early bird catches the worm [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Racist post card depicting a satiric caricature of an African American man urinating behind a tree and a goose biting him. Shows the man in the left portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a yellow hat, a white shirt, and yellow pants with white cuffs at the bottom. He stands behind a tree to urinate. In the right, a white goose with its wings stretched out has surprised him and bites him. The man opens his mouth wide in alarm.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Series number printed on the recto: 421.
Text printed on the verso: Post Card. Place one cent stamp here.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Geese.
Human-animal relationships.
Racism in popular culture.
Surprise.
Urination.
Genre Post cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Early [P.2017.95.241]
Accession number P.2017.95.241