Studio unknown (indecipherable) Full length cartoon of a black man "goose-stepping" with broom, brick wall in background, straw, possibly stable. Carte de visite

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Studio unknown (indecipherable) Full length cartoon of a black man "goose-stepping" with broom, brick wall in background, straw, possibly stable. Carte de visite

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Description

Title: Studio unknown (indecipherable) Full length cartoon of a black man "goose-stepping" with broom, brick wall in background, straw, possibly stable. Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1864
Description: In print, recto: "Th[omas] Nast" Stamped below image: "The Colored Volunteer." Inscription verso blurred. In part: "This card represents the type of ... popular in Paris and London at present ... to introduce to the New York City Trade...." Subject was later produced by Currier & Ives.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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    THIS ITEM Studio unknown (indecipherable) Full length cartoon of a black man "goose-stepping" with broom, brick wall in background, straw, possibly stable. Carte de visite

Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 442

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.