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Contains 60 Results:

Racial Caricature Greeting Cards, 1932 and undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: id262135
Scope and Contents

This folder contains three Happy Birthday and one Christmas card. The cards contain cartooned sketches of African Americans, with factors such as large lips and big eyes. One happy birthday card has a sketch of three black women riding in a large watermelon.

Dates: 1932 and undated

Racial Caricature Greeting Cards, Undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: id262136
Scope and Contents

This folder contains numerous happy birthday cards featuring cartooned sketches of African American girls. The girls' features include large eyes and curly hair.

Dates: Undated

Kwanzaa Greeting Cards and Stickers, Undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: id262137
Scope and Contents

Cards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Dates: Undated

Songs of 1900, 1900

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 1
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.

Dates: 1900

Essex County High School Yearbook, 1940

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 2
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex County, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.

Dates: 1940

Travel Guide to Negro Hotels and Guest Houses, 1942

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 3
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

This travel guide of “negro” hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.

Dates: 1942

Theater Advertisements, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 24, Object: 4
Identifier: id261897
Scope and Contents

Two advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.

Dates: undated

African American Cards and Valentines, 1910-1920

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

Five various cards and Valentine's featuring caricatures of African Americans. Most of the cards depict the individuals with over exaggerated features and stereotypes, such as one card showing an African American eating watermelon.

Dates: 1910-1920

African American Postcards, 1910-1930

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans. Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans. The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.

Dates: 1910-1930

Stereoviews of African American Families, 1880-1920

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Identifier: id70844
Scope and Contents

Three stereoviews showing African Americans picking cotton in Georgia and Mississippi cotton fields and sugar cane in Peurto Rico. The views were produced by Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone Viewing Company.

Dates: 1880-1920