A Bran New Coon in Town"" – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: A Bran New Coon in Town"", preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A Bran New Coon in Town""
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The title alone tells you what this stereograph is: "A Bran New Coon in Town" uses a racial slur to cast its subject as a figure of ridicule. The card, copyrighted by B.L. Singley and issued by the Keystone View Company, was made for parlor viewing, and such cards often relied on stock comic types, especially in the 1890s, when minstrel-derived caricature was common in American popular culture. The record says little about the scene itself, so the card is best read as evidence of how Black Americans were routinely mocked in commercial imagery of the period.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley - Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; African Americans--Misc.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,419 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133984 |
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