Mose, Lize, & Little Mose going to California – Vintage Print
![Mose, Lize, & Little Mose going to California, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/091b2e966001-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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Step back in time with Mose, Lize, & Little Mose going to California, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mose, Lize, & Little Mose going to California
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The title names three figures, Mose, Lize, and little Mose, who are heading to California, a destination tied to the gold rush of 1849 and the years after. The shelflist card associates the print with H.R. Robinson, a New York lithographer, but it gives no date, so the exact year is unconfirmed. Comic prints like this drew on stock Black caricatures from minstrel shows and reflect the racist humor of their time, so they are best understood as evidence of that stereotyping rather than as portraits of real people.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robinson, H.R. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,107 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115311 |
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