Details
Title Intelligent contraband. 2d ed. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia?]
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Racist photograph showing a seated African American man, attired in a gorilla mask, a coat, striped, patterned pants, socks, and shoes, facing right. Also included in the image is a patterned, tile floor.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Date inferred from content.
During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war."
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Created postfreeze.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American men -- Caricatures & cartoons.
Gorillas.
Masks.
Racism in popular culture.
African American Civil War freedom seeker.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51j]
Accession number 5780.F.51j