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"Wish you'd hush" [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A96096
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Details
Contributor
Knaffl & Bro., publisher.
Title
"Wish you'd hush" [graphic].
Publisher
Knoxville, Tenn. : Published by Knaffl & Bro
Publisher
TN. Knoxville. 1905
Date
1905
Physical Description
1 photograph : photomechanical print ; sheet 9 x 15 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in.) (postcard format)
Description
Racist postcard depicting an African American boy looking exasperated at the crying African American baby beside him. The children are shown from the waist up and are bare-chested. The older boy has a glistening substance around his mouth and on his cheeks. The baby holds, possibly, ice in their hands.
Notes
Title from item.
Publication information and date from copyright statement: Copyrighted, 1905, and published by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn.
Accessioned 1999.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
African American children.
African American infants.
African Americans.
Crying.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Printer
Knaffl & Bro., publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Genre [P.9725.3]
Accession number
P.9725.3
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Library Company Postcard Collection
Miscellaneous Collections
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1901-1980
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