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
Type
relief halftones
stereographs
Topic
Caricature and cartoons
Children
Labor
Photography
Race relations
Stereotypes
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.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd54838cfc8-76f2-4220-941b-1568fe11f60c

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