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Ten Minutes for Refreshments / Diez minutos para refrescarse.

1890

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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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.

This stereograph card depicts a little boy feeding a spotted piglet with a bottle. Wearing a white shirt and dark pants, he sits on the floor of a room with a bottle held in his two hands in front of him. It is being pulled on a by a small spotted pig. In the background of the room is a bed and a chair. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical text. On the left side margin is script that reads "Strohmeyer & Wyman Publishers/ New York, N.Y." On the right side margin is script that reads "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, / Liverpool, - New York, - Chicago, - Toronto, - Ottawa, Kas., - El Paso, Texas." Along the bottom left margin is text that reads "Copyright 1890 by Stohmeyer & Wyman."

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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.25

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