Lesson 11 Document 6
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TITLE: The aristocracy of color
CALL NUMBER: PC/US - Undated.A000, no. 3 (B size) <P&P>[P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-14079 (b&w film copy neg.)
MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1830 and 1880]
NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item.
Signed in stone: J. Cn. Use surrogate: electronic image.
TOPICS:
African Americans (portrayed)
FORMAT:
Political cartoons.
Lithographs.
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a16359 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a16359
CARD #: app1999000809/PP
Captions From Left:
1. "Well now, I'm a herring, if I don't 'bout all natur- who'd thought"
2. "No, I never"
3. Oh Hespsebah! What a striking resemblance there is between those tow distinguished individuals, that brother Ephraim is introducing to each other - Did you ever?
4. "Brother Jumbo, let me introduce your half brother Count Bazzoon from Brazil"
5. "who you call dat? Dat am on colored pusson. I nebbe own dat gemman for one ob us! He is gemman wid tail. Go long, half-price nigger, you wouldn't fetch fifty dollars and I'm worth a tousand - Whew!