Details
Creator Universal Photo Art Co.
Contributor Graves, C.H. -1943, publisher.
Title Whack it off short Sam. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : C.H. Graves, publisher
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1898
Date c190[0]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Depicts a group of African American boys with a dog, its tail placed over a wood block in preparation to cut it with a hatchet. The six boys stand outside next to a brick building and a wooden barrel. The boy in the left holds a small, white dog up. The second boy to the right holds its tail across a wood block. The boy in the center holds the hatchet up in both hands.
Is part of 4582
Notes Title from item.
Warped buff mount with rounded corners.
Imprint on mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Offices Philadelphia, Napierville, Ill., New York, London, Paris, Hamburg.
Gift of David Long, 2002.
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.
Animal treatment.
Axes.
Dogs.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Stereographs -- 1900-1910.
Printer Graves, C.H. (Carleton H.), -1943, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Graves - Portraits & Genre [P.2002.4.7]
Accession number P.2002.4.7