A postcard with a black stereotype and caricature music theme

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

A postcard with a black stereotype and caricature music theme

Entry/Object ID

2012.483.1.2

Description

A postcard with a black stereotype and caricature music theme, published by M. Rieder, Los Angeles, ca. 1900s. The card is captioned "Happy Days" and shows a black person with exaggerated racial features holding a banjo while sitting on a wood gate near a farm house. There is light soiling and edge rubbing and the overall condition is good.

Lexicon

Search Terms

California. Department of Public Health. Bureau of Child Hygiene, United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau.

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Postcards