Foh yo’ birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin’ foh you! [graphic].

Foh yo’ birfday! De sweetest little flowers, dat eber ah saw grew, am climbing up de birfday fence, a-blossomin’ foh you! [graphic].

African American girls -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Flowers.

Fences.

Houses.

Racism in popular culture.

Afro-Americana.

Birthday card depicting a racist caricature an African American girl standing as flowers grow over a fence and towards a house. Shows the African American girl portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in an orange dress with purple polka dots, blue shoes, and blue and orange bows in her hair. At her feet are yellow, purple, blue, and orange flowers. She speaks in the vernacular that the flowers are “climbing up de birfday fence,” which is the yellow fence depicted in the right. The flowers, made of cloth, grow over it and towards a house, which has flowers growing on the roof. The house is blue with green shutters that are falling apart.

Library Company of Philadelphia

[United States] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1890]

1 print : chromolithograph with cloth details ; sheet 13 x 11 cm (5 x 4.5 in.)

Goldman Trade Card Collection - Greeting Cards, etc. - Foh [P.2017.95.242]