Details
Contributor Rust Craft Publishers, printer.
Title Strike me pink if it ain't yo' anniversary! [graphic].
Publisher [Boston] : Rust Craft
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1913
Date [after 1913]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; sheet 12 x 11 cm (4.5 x 4.5 in.)
Description Racist, greeting card depicting a caricature portrayed with exaggerated features of an African American child's face. The oversized child's face looks directly at the viewer and purse's their lips. The interior image has a depiction of the same child with pink skin color. The child speaks in the vernacular to "strike me pink if it ain't yo' anniversary." The card is printed on pink paper.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from history of the publisher.
Manuscript written on recto: Louis & Ellis- from Wendy & Shie. The "me" in "strike me pink" is crossed out and "us" in written in manuscript.
Text printed on interior: Ah hopes yo' has a million mo' each one bettah dan de one befo'!
Manuscript written on interior: drawings of four stick figures, each with an illegible name. "An hopes yo'" has been crossed out and "We" and "yos" is written in manuscript.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject African American children -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Anniversaries.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre Lithographs -- 1910-1920.
Greeting cards -- 1910-1920.
Printer Rust Craft Publishers, printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Strike [P.2017.95.251]
Accession number P.2017.95.251