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The darktown riding class-the gallop – Antique Print

The darktown riding class-the gallop, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890. — antique lithograph
The darktown riding class-the gallop, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Among the Darktown caricatures Currier & Ives issued in the 1880s and 1890s, this 1890 lithograph presents a riding class in which the humor depends on Black figures struggling to ride, mocking them for pursuits from which they were largely excluded. The series belonged to a wider stream of racist "comic" prints that circulated widely and reinforced stereotypes used to justify segregation after Reconstruction. Today the print is studied as evidence of how popular visual humor cast Black Americans as objects of ridicule, and it is best viewed with that history in mind.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
Genrec1983
NotesCaricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,070 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174331

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