Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Raising colored infant - ry [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 item (mixed media) : pen and ink with watercolor and albumen ; sheet 14 x 12 cm (5.25 x 4.75 in.)
Description Racist satiric print comprised of a watercolor drawing and a photograph showing a white man in civilian clothes feeding an African American doll. The man, attired in a white shirt, a black bowtie, a gray vest, gray pants, and black shoes, sits on a wooden chair and holds a spoon to the doll, costumed in a white layette gown. A bowl labeled "Bounty" is set upon a wooden chair in the left. A photograph cut-out of a head, presumably of a white commander of an African American regiment, rests on the drawn body of the man.
Notes Title from manuscript note written on the recto.
Date inferred from content.
Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous views and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Created postfreeze.
RVCDC
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 Americans -- Caricatures & cartoons.
Dolls.
Feeding.
Racism in popular culture.
Soldiers -- Union.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Ink drawings -- 1850-1860.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1850-1860.
Watercolors -- 1850-1860.
Mixed media -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Drawings & Watercolors - unidentified - R [5780.F.5c]
Accession number 5780.F.5c