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[African Americans picking cotton with a cotton compress] [graphic].
Racist, trade card specimen depicting African Americans picking cotton on a plantation. In the left foreground, shows an African American man, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and shoes, carrying a basket on his back filled with cotton.…
[African American woman dancing] [graphic].
Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature an African American woman dancing. Shows the woman portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a red hat decorated with flowers, gold bracelets, a dress composed of a yellow, blue, and white…
[African American man smiling and carrying a watermelon] [graphic].
Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man smiling and carrying a watermelon. Shows the full-length portrait of the man portrayed with exaggerated features and attired in a white collared shirt with blue stripes, a yellow…
[African American infant sitting on a blanket] [graphic].
Racist, trade card specimen depicting a caricature of an African American infant girl sitting on a blanket. Shows the African American infant, attired in a white dress with pink checks, sitting on top of a pink and yellow blanket. She looks and…
[African American boy in tree reaching for eggs in a bird’s nest] [graphic].
Racist trade card promoting Joshua Walker’s bone fertilizer and depicting a caricature of an African American boy in a tree trying to take bird eggs from a nest. The barefooted boy is attired in a straw hat that is torn at the top and on the brim and…
[African American boy butler carrying a bouquet of flowers] [graphic].
Scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American boy butler. Shows the full-length portrait of the boy attired in a white shirt and bowtie, a yellow waistcoat, an orange jacket with tails, white gloves, blue pants, and white and black…
"Tell the truth," or, The story of a working woman’s wrongs / illustrated by special artists, containing the history of the recent abduction of Maria Halpin from her home in New Rochelle, as it appeared in the New Rochelle Pioneer and other papers, together with the Buffalo Evening telegraph’s "Terrible tale," and comments from leading journals and the religious press.
After Grover Cleveland became the Democratic nominee, it came to light that he had fathered an illegitimate child (Oscar Folson Cleveland) with Maria Halpin [i.e., Marie Hovenden Halpin].