Details
Creator Griffith & Griffith.
Title "Does you love me hun?" [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia ; St. Louis ; Liverpool, Eng. : Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. American and foreign views
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1908
Date [ca. 1908]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Racist stereograph of an outdoor caricatured, genre scene showing a man woman couple, portrayed in Blackface, seated together, and embracing each other on a wooden swing in the countryside. The woman sits next to the man, her legs dangling. She smiles and looks up toward him. He smiles and looks out, his legs crossed at the ankle and his feet touching the ground. The woman wears a kerchief, dark-colored shirtwaist, a striped skirt, white stockings, and laced shoes. He wears a cap, long-sleeved white shirt, light-colored pants and boots. Scene also includes a pile of branches behind the couple and a wood fence in the distant background.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferrred from publisher and places of publication.
Curved buff mount with rounded corners.
Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910.
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Subject African Americans -- Performances & portrayals.
Couples.
Courtship.
Racism in popular culture.
Swings.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1900-1910.
Genre photographs -- 1900-1910.
Stereographs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Rau Misc. Collection [P.2012.56.56]
Accession number P.2012.56.56