Image / [African American man holding umbrella and another man falling]

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Title: [African American man holding umbrella and another man falling]
Creator: Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Freedman, Joe, former owner
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of a caricature of an African American man holding an umbrella while another man holding a carpetbag falls.
Title supplied by cataloger. "No. 12 / Copyrighted 1890 by / The Calvert / Litho. Co., / Detroit, Mich."--text, lower right of image. "Library of Congress, / Copyright / Nov 7 1890 / Washington / 35159V"--text, oval stamp in purple ink with numbers written in pencil at lower right.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 75.25 x 50.48 cm (29 5/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000501
387610
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2292
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Umbrellas--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Minstrel
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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