Practical amalgamation (the dinner party) / EWC [signed on stone].
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- Title
- Practical amalgamation (the dinner party) / EWC [signed on stone].
- Date
- [1839]
- Notes
- Cartoon satirizing the effects of interracial mixing. Image of a banquet scene where fashionably dressed people are paired off interracially as couples. All the servants are white, and the interior is lavishly decorated with a fireplace and portraits of an African American man, a white woman, and two bi-racial children. The African American man at the head of the table is standing and saying, "Ladies and gentlemen ob bofe colours, I expose dis sentiment to be drunk standing. De union ob colors! It tends to de prolification ob de human gender, and gibs a wholesome odour to fashionable siety!"
- "Entered according to Act of Congress in 1839 by John Childs in the Clerk's Office in the District Court for the southn. Distt. of N.Y."
- Names and Subjects
- African Americans--Caricatures and cartoons.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Caricatures and cartoons--United States.
- Race relations.
- Courtship.
- Interracial dating--1830-1840.
- Dinner parties--1830-1840.
- Clothing and dress--1830-1840.
- Ethnic stereotypes--1830-1840.
- Prints shelf.
- Childs, J.--(John),--publisher.
- United States--New York (State)--New York.
- ID
- 260
- Barcode
- B6515498
- Physical Description
- 1 print : lithograph ; 29.8 x 40.7 cm
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2016-01-06 00:15:42
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- Collection
- William L. Clements Library Image Bank
- Image Size
- 5149 x 3619
- File Size
- 3 MB
- Record
- 260
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-260/wcl000333
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"Practical amalgamation (the dinner party) / EWC [signed on stone].". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-260/wcl000333. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 18, 2024.