A base hit / Thos. Worth. – Antique 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 base hit / Thos. Worth. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A base hit / Thos. Worth.
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A base hit" belongs to the Darktown comics, a series of racist caricatures that Currier & Ives issued in the early 1880s. The artist, Thomas Worth, was one of the firm's regular comic illustrators. The title plays on baseball, which was growing into a popular pastime in the 1880s, and the print uses exaggerated caricature to mock Black Americans at play. Today it is best read as evidence of the stereotyping of the period, when Black men were still playing professional baseball but were already being pushed out of the sport.
| Created / published | New York : Currier & Ives, c1882. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Ethnic stereotypes 1880-1890.Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Caricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series." |
| Subjects | Baseball--1880-1890. African Americans--Social life--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 7,212 × 5,554 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18391_AbasehitThosWorth |
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