Museum object · Racist and Stereotypical Objects
I bet dis am a Good one
1900
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.
A color half-tone print depicting three children holding a watermelon. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside of a stone faced root cellar, three dark haired boys all have their hands on a very large watermelon. From left to right: a boy in a light colored long sleeve shirt and brown pants, smiles as he touches one end of a watermelon with his proper right hand. Next to him, a boy in a bright colored long sleeve shirt smiles at the camera with his proper right hand on the watermelon. A boy wearing a yellow long sleeve jacket and dark pants crouches on his knees with both hands resting on the watermelon. All three are situated at the opening of a root cellar, green foliage to their right, and clumped dirt at their feet.
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Catalog reference: 2019.3.2
