Details
Title A happy new year [graphic].
Publisher [United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 7 x 11 cm (2.5 x 4.5 in.)
Description Greeting card depicting a racist caricature of an African American man jockey riding a bucking horse in the snow. Shows the African American man jockey attired in a yellow jockey cap, a yellow vest, a pink shirt, a blue bowtie, white breeches, and black boots. He sits on a white horse that is kicking its back legs and hitting a snowman in the right. The snowman has a pipe in his mouth and a large pine branch in his hands. The jockey has lost hold of the reins, which dangle from the horse’s mouth, and his whip is in the snow.
Notes Title from item.
Date deduced from the visual content.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American jockeys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Horseback riding.
Horses.
Racism in popular culture.
Snow.
Snowmen.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
New Year cards -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Happy [P.2017.95.244]
Accession number P.2017.95.244