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Photography under a cloud. [graphic] : Perry is selling the nicest lot of fine combs, dressing combs, barber combs and misses circle combs, made from rubber, horn or celluloid; from 5 cts. to $1. Remember Perry's Drug Store, Canastota.
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Title
Photography under a cloud. [graphic] : Perry is selling the nicest lot of fine combs, dressing combs, barber combs and misses circle combs, made from rubber, horn or celluloid; from 5 cts. to $1. Remember Perry's Drug Store, Canastota.
Publisher
[United States] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 7 x 11.5 cm. (2.75 x 4.5 in.)
Description
Racist trade card illustration depicting a group of barefooted African American men and boys, portrayed in caricature, looking on as a photographer takes a photograph of them. In the left, a boy, attired in a blue jacket, and a man, attired in an orange collared shirt and yellow pants, stand and look at the camera. In the center, a man, attired in a yellow shirt and pink pants, stands directly in front of the camera and peers into the lens. In the right, a boy, attired in an orange shirt and blue pants, crawls toward the scene on all fours. The photographer is crouched under a cloak. Visible in the background is a woman standing beside a cabin.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of William H. Helfand.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject
Perry's Drug Store (Canastota, N.Y.)
African American boys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cameras.
Pharmaceutical industry -- New York (State) -- Canastota.
Photographers.
Plantations.
Racism in popular culture.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - P [P.9828.6598]
Accession number
P.9828.6598
In Collections
African American History Prints and Watercolors and Drawings
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Trade Card Collection
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1866-1900
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