- Photograph by
- Griffith and Griffith, founded 1896
- Published by
- Griffith and Griffith, founded 1896
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product) with dye on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 3 × 6 in. (7.6 × 15.2 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.7 cm)
- Description
- A color half-tone print depicting two women seated with four children. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside the door of plank wood structure, two dark haired women face the camera. The left-most woman wears a light blue-gray dress layered over a pink long sleeve top. She holds a toddler dressed in a dark top and yellow bottom. Beside her left knee, two dark haired children are seated wearing patterned green tops. There is a round object just behind the child seated on the far right. The second woman wears a red long sleeve top and breastfeeds a child dressed in pink and yellow. Below the right image card, printed on the sheet in bold English is: Down in Dixie. Copyright is also indicated for Griffith and Griffith.
- Statement
- Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
- Place captured
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Racist and Stereotypical Objects
- Photographs and Still Images
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Mark Miller and Barbara Smeltzer
- Object number
- 2019.3.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




