Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
Postcard featuring caricatured man at dinner table
July 25, 1908
Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Color postcard with a cartoon scene depicting a caricatured man sitting at a table. A turkey dinner is sitting on the table in front of the man, and a bucket of champagne chills in a bucket next to the table. A butler is visible in the background. Black type in image reads, ["I'm just barely / livin'. Dat's all." / (coon song.)]. Stamp, postmark, and handwritten message appear on reverse side of postcard. The card was sent and received in Michigan.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2014.312.182
