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Title: Two little nigs
Description: Racist portrait depicting two African American boys, attired in torn and worn clothes, seated on a plank on a barrel in a field. The barefooted boy in the left, attired in a hat, a torn shirt, and worn pants, sits with his hands folded on his lap. The boy in the right, attired in a hat, a worn shirt, torn pants, and dilapidated shoes, sits with his hands between his legs., No. 119., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Warped orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long, 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Creator: Wilson, J. N., photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - miscellaneous photographer - Wilson [P.2002.8.4]

Title: "Doing business on a small scale"
Description: Racist, satiric stereograph depicting a young African American boy seated on a chamber pot atop a Victor scale. The boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, sits with his hands resting on his knees and looks slightly up., Title from item., Warped buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long, 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2002.8.1]

Title: Future rulers of Florida U.S.A
Description: Racist scene showing an African American family of a mother, father, and four children seated on the porch to a wooden dwelling. In the left, the mother breastfeeds her youngest child, a baby. She is seated next to her three older, but young children. The father sits to the right on the other side of the children who sit and stand. He has his arm behind the next to youngest child. The mother is attired in a kerchief, plain shirtwaist, and long, plain skirt. The father wears a vest, shirt sleeves, pants, and work boots. The children are attired in worn shirts and the oldest also in worn pants., Title printed on negative., Yellow mount with curved corners., Date inferred from format of stereograph., Gift of Ivan Jurin., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Portraits & Genre [P.2019.2.2]

Title: " Does you love me hun?"
Description: Racist stereograph of an outdoor caricatured, genre scene showing an African American man woman couple seated together on a tree swing in a clearing in the woods. The woman sits on the lap of the man. Her left leg dangles. Her right cheek rests against his left one. She smiles and looks out. His eyes are turned toward hers. The woman wears a patterned, dark-colored shirtwaist, a floral-patterned skirt, dark stockings, and boots. He wears a suit. Scene also includes leaves on the ground and trees and bushes in the background., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1898, by R. Y. Young., Title from item., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Long., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Universal Stereoscopic View Company
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo - Universal [P.2018.16.7]

Title: " Does you love me hun?"
Description: Racist stereograph of an outdoor caricatured, genre scene showing a man woman couple, portrayed in Blackface, seated together, and embracing each other on a wooden swing in the countryside. The woman sits next to the man, her legs dangling. She smiles and looks up toward him. He smiles and looks out, his legs crossed at the ankle and his feet touching the ground. The woman wears a kerchief, dark-colored shirtwaist, a striped skirt, white stockings, and laced shoes. He wears a cap, long-sleeved white shirt, light-colored pants and boots. Scene also includes a pile of branches behind the couple and a wood fence in the distant background., Title from item., Date inferrred from publisher and places of publication., Curved buff mount with rounded corners., Griffith & Griffith, established in Philadelphia in 1896, expanded in 1908 to included offices in St. Louis and Liverpool. The non-Philadelphia offices were relocated in 1910., RVCDC
Creator: Griffith & Griffith
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Rau Misc. Collection [P.2012.56.56]

Title: A darktown wedding, the ceremony
Description: Racist depiction of the nuptials of a young African American couple officiated by a white-haired African American man and witnessed by six African American attendants. In the left, the officiant, attired in a suit, holds a paper as he conducts the ceremony. The bride, attired in veil pinned to the back of her hair, a white dress with a large boutonniere of flowers, and white gloves, has her head tilted down and holds the hand of the groom. The groom, attired in a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, a jacket with a large flower boutonniere, pants, and shoes, stands facing left towards the officiant. Two women and three men stand behind the couple and watch the ceremony. One man alters a placard on the wall that reads, “suffer little children to come unto me” by crossing out “me” and writing “us” inverting the “s.” The dilapidated wall with exposed brick is sparsely decorated with another placard, “God bless our home” and a framed picture. A top hat rests on a stool., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1901 by C.H. Graves., Publisher's blindstamp on mount., Distributor's blindstamp on mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Philadelphia, Napierville, Ill., London, Paris, Hamburg., Stamped on mount: 4574., Purchase 2001., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1901
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Graves - Genre [P.9922]

Title: The Court of Honor during the Elks' greatest parade, Philadelphia, July 18, 1907
Description: View of the "Elks Greatest Parade" on South Broad Street during the 21st Annual Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Convention held in Philadelphia in 1907. Depicts a float, a horse-drawn wagon carrying a large stuffed elk and passengers, and several costumed parade participants from various Elk Lodges throughout the country. Participants include a group dressed as minstrels in bowler hats and duster jackets and members attired all in white holding umbrellas. Spectators line the street. The south side of City Hall is visible in the distance., Title from item., Berry, Kelley & Chadwick was an early 20th century prolific publisher and retailer of stereoviews with locations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Berry, Kelley & Chadwick [P.8451.3]

Title: Is yo' sho' lady when I wears dese stockings I won' fin' ma laigs all black
Description: Racist caricature reminiscent of the plate "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" from E.W. Clay's racist satiric series, Life in Philadelphia, originally published in the late 1820s and early 1830s. Depicts an African American man dressed as a woman attired in a brimmed hat, a long-sleeved dress tied with a bow at the back, a fur shawl, shoes, and with a closed umbrella and a basket at her feet. She sits in front of the counter of a dry goods store and inquires in the vernacular about a pair of dark stockings which she holds. A young white woman sales clerk smiles with her elbows on the counter and displays to the customer a second pair of dark-colored stockings. Bolts of fabric rest on shelves behind the clerk, and socks and hosiery hang above. A white woman customer shops at the other end of the counter, in the right., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood., Printed on mount: Works and Studios. Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J. Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on verso in six different languages, including French, German, and Spanish., Grey mount with rounded corners., See Life in Philadelphia. "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings...?" [LCP Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia) P.9701.9], Purchase 2002., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Underwood & Underwood - Genre [P.2002.31]

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