Uncle Tom's cabin - as it will have to be played if Johnson wins – Historic 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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Step back in time with Uncle Tom's cabin - as it will have to be played if Johnson wins, a historic print rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Uncle Tom's cabin - as it will have to be played if Johnson wins
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Ahead of the heavyweight title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries, this color cover from *Puck* casts the bout as a stage melodrama, borrowing the title of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel. The drawing by L. M. Glackens, the brother of the painter William Glackens, was published by the magazine's firm, Keppler & Schwarzmann, and it reflects the racial anxiety that surrounded a Black champion facing a white challenger. The fight took place in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910, and Johnson's victory set off riots and violence in cities across the United States. The cover is a useful reminder of how the popular press framed the match before it was fought.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Notes | Color halftone repro. of drawing signed in lower right L.M. Glackens, copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, 1910 June 22, cover. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,038 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173364 |
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