Horse car sports on the back track: dead broke – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Horse car sports on the back track: dead broke in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Horse car sports on the back track: dead broke" pairs a horsecar, the streetcar pulled by horses that carried city passengers in the 1880s, with racetrack slang, where a "dead broke" gambler has lost everything. Currier & Ives issued it around 1886 as part of its Darktown series, a set of caricatures that mocked Black urban life through exaggerated stereotype. Historians study such prints as evidence of how popular American printmakers portrayed African Americans in the decades after Reconstruction, and the offensive content is central to any reading of the image today.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| 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 | 1,096 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174716 |
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