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Draw Poker-Getting' em lively: Three of a kind beat two pair"" – Historic Print

Draw Poker-Getting' em lively: Three of a kind beat two pair"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1886. — antique lithograph
Draw Poker-Getting' em lively: Three of a kind beat two pair"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1886.. 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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In this Currier & Ives lithograph, the title sets the joke: a card table where three of a kind beats two pair. Published in New York in 1886, it belongs to the firm's Darktown comic series, which used exaggerated dialect and stereotyped features to mock Black Americans. Poker was a common pastime in the period's saloons and parlors, so contemporary viewers would have recognized the setting at once. Today the print is best read as evidence of how demeaning racial humor was sold to a mass audience.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1886.
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 × 1,101 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174381

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