Postcard featuring caricatured man at dinner table: Museum Object and Cultural History
Postcard featuring caricatured man at dinner table: Date: July 25, 1908. Created by: Unidentified. Type: picture postcards.
The object in the museum catalogue
Color postcard with a cartoon scene depicting a caricatured man sitting at a table. A turkey dinner is sitting on the table in front of the man, and a bucket of champagne chills in a bucket next to the table. A butler is visible in the background. Black type in image reads, ["I'm just barely / livin'. Dat's all." / (coon song.)]. Stamp, postmark, and handwritten message appear on reverse side of postcard. The card was sent and received in Michigan.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: July 25, 1908
- Created by: Unidentified
- Type: picture postcards
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 in. (9 × 14 cm)
- Place depicted: Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Caricature and cartoons
- Topic: Stereotypes
- Object number: 2014.312.182
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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