Image of African American men sitting on a dock along a levee dancing, singing, playing music on a banjo, and playing cards in the foreground with a bustling port in the background showing horse-drawn wagons, cargo in barrels, crates, and bales being unloaded from steamboats lined up along the Mississippi River, including ones presumably named "Jacob Strader" and "Memphis"; some warehouses appear to say "St. Paul." Margins trimmed on local copy; probable date, probable full artist's name, and probable printer supplied by cataloger. "A.M.W."--text, artist's initials in stone, bottom left.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 51.44 x 70.49 cm (20 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
Mississippi River--Pictorial works African Americans--Pictorial works African Americans--Performances & portrayals Banjoists--Pictorial works Dancers--Pictorial works Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Playing cards--Pictorial works Ships--Pictorial works Steamboats--Pictorial works Waterfronts--Pictorial works Wharves--Pictorial works Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
Mississippi River
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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