Details
Title "I'm a farder" [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 4 prints : chromolithographs ; sheet 12 x 8 cm (4.75 x 3 in.)
Description Set of four collecting cards depicting racist caricatures of African Americans to satirize fatherhood and the question of paternity. Titles are in the vernacular. Includes "I'm a Farder" showing a dapperly-dressed African American man, attired in a white collared shirt, a red tie, a gray waistcoat, a blue jacket, and blue-and-white striped pants. He talks to his "Aunty," an African American woman, attired in a red and yellow head kerchief, hoop earrings, a green and red shawl, a red dress, and a white apron, and holding her hands to her chest; "Aunty Says Der Am Two" showing the man with a sheepish look and his hands in his pockets while "Aunty" smiles; "And Dat One Am kinder White" showing the man aghast and standing straight up as "Aunty" holds out her hands in a near gesture of comfort; and "If Dat Chile Dont Change Color Der'l Be Trouble in Dis Yer Fam'ly" showing the man forlorn, hands in pockets, and looking down at this two infants being held by "Aunty" in her lap, while she sits in a chair under a placard reading "Bless Our Home." The baby in the left has a dark skin tone, and the baby in the right has a light skin tone.
Notes Copyrighted.
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Purchase 2012.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American caregivers -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Fathers.
Infants.
Miscegenation.
Paternity.
Racially mixed people.
Racism in popular culture.
Multiracial relationship.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Collecting cards -- 1870-1880.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Genre [P.2012.23.1-4]
Accession number P.2012.23.1
P.2012.23.2
P.2012.23.3