"Deed Child's, I's didn't know you was dare." [graphic].
Title
"Deed Child's, I's didn't know you was dare."
Description
Racist, comic genre scene showing a young African American woman emerging from a cellar and accidentally knocking two children off the cellar doors. Depicts the woman standing out from the cellar and opening the cellar doors with both her hands. A young white girl has rolled off the door in the left and a young white boy lies on the edge of the door in the right. The girl, lies on her side, her head toward the viewer, her dress tousled, and her hands over her eyes. The boy, attired in a romper ensemble, sucks his thumb, and lies on his right side. The woman, smiles, and looks toward the boy. She is attired in a wide-brimmed hat, a shirt waist, and a skirt. The image also shows the outer wall of a stone dwelling and a window in which the figure of a man is visible. The window, adorned with drapery, is over the cellar., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Date and name of photographer from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1898, by T.W. Ingersoll., Printed on mount: High Grade Original Views. Sold only by Subscription., Gift of George R. Allen, 2022., RVCDC
Creator
Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), 1862-1922
Date
1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Ingersoll [P.2022.42.19]
[Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
Title
[Partridge & Richardson trade cards]
Description
Series of illustrated trade cards and caricatures for Artemus Partridge & Thomas D. Richardson's "bee hive" dress trimmings' store at 17, 19 & 21 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations include various series depicting flowers; men and women couples promenading; bust-length portraits of well-dressed women; children playing and fishing on the beach; frogs and cherubs seated on or near mushrooms holding umbrellas in the rain; and anthropomorphic rabbits jumping rope, one rabbit pulling another on a sleigh with a banner labeled "Rabbit Transit," the sleigh crashing through the ice, and two African American men, portrayed in racist caricature, trying to lure rabbits into a trap. Other imagery includes an anthropomorphic moon smiling down at a boy sitting on the limb of a bare tree with two cats singing from sheet music labeled "Clair de lune"; a portrait of a mother holding her infant; a female cherub picking flowers; a girl picking flowers; a fox standing under a grapevine trellis; three cats in a basket; a girl blindfolding a dog; a boy fishing in a pond; and two boys and a girl pulling and guiding a dray of flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Four prints [1975.F.660-662 & 665] copyrighted 1881 by Chas. Moritz., Printers and engravers include Graf Brothers (Philadelphia), Sunshine Publishing Company (Philadelphia), Wemple & Kronheim (New York), and Craig, Finley & Co. (Philadelphia)., Four prints [1975.F.701-704] signed with the same trademark initials (C.A. or A.C.) and contain French titles, including "Zozor revenant du bain," "Lili pechant la crevette," "Nini prenant sa leçon de natation," and "Petit marin faisant une découverte"., 1975.F gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., P.2024.74.1 gift of Ivan Jurin., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Partridge [various]