Details
Title "Doing business on a small scale" [graphic].
Publisher United States : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Racist, satiric stereograph depicting a young African American boy seated on a chamber pot atop a Victor scale. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, sits with his hands resting on his knees and looks slightly up.
Is part of 6063
Notes Title from item.
Warped buff mount with rounded corners.
Gift of David Long, 2002.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject African American boys.
Chamber pots.
Racism in popular culture.
Scales.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1880-1890.
Puns -- 1880-1890.
Stereographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2002.8.1]
Accession number P.2002.8.1