The darktown fire brigade-taking a rest: Foreman-right you is parson dis terbakker beats de deck – Vintage Wall Art
![The darktown fire brigade-taking a rest: Foreman-right you is parson dis terbakker beats de deck, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1894. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/02/02b69ea7089b-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The darktown fire brigade-taking a rest: Foreman-right you is parson dis terbakker beats de deck. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A volunteer fire company is the comic subject of this hand-colored 1894 lithograph, whose caption, written in exaggerated dialect, casts the men as bumbling figures who stop for a rest instead of fighting the blaze. Currier & Ives issued the Darktown comics in the 1880s and 1890s, and they drew on minstrel-show stereotypes to portray Black urban life as chaotic and ridiculous. Historians now study the series as evidence of how demeaning racial imagery circulated as popular entertainment in American print culture, and this sheet is best viewed with that history in mind.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1894. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Caricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,089 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174312 |
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