- Photograph by
- Ingersoll, Truman Ward, American, 1862 - 1922
- Published by
- Ingersoll, Truman Ward, American, 1862 - 1922
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- ink on paper (fiber product) with dye on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 3 1/8 × 5 7/8 in. (8 × 14.9 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 3 1/2 × 6 3/4 in. (8.9 × 17.2 cm)
- Description
- A color half-tone print depicting a woman opening the doors to a cellar. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside of a light colored stone building, a hatted woman wearing a long sleeve pink top and grey-blue skirt, holds open both left and right wooden doors to a walk-up cellar. Leaning against both doors are children; a light haired one on the woman’s proper right, wearing a reddish jacket; a dark haired one on the left wearing a grey-blue top and red bottom. There is green grass or shrubbery surrounding the cellar and the children, at the bottom of the image. Above the cellar is a window with both green shutter doors opened and textured curtains are visible just beyond the window frame. Below the right image card, printed on the sheet in bold English, is: 93 [and] “Deed Child’s, I’s Didn’t Know You’s Was Dare.” There is also a copyright notice for a T. W. Ingersoll.
- 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
- 2019.3.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




