The darktown bicycle club-knocked out: Dar! I knowed dem odd fellers was a breedin mischief."" – Vintage Print
![The darktown bicycle club-knocked out: Dar! I knowed dem odd fellers was a breedin mischief."", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/937247c0f0ef-L.webp)
(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 window into the past: The darktown bicycle club-knocked out: Dar! I knowed dem odd fellers was a breedin mischief."", preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The darktown bicycle club-knocked out: Dar! I knowed dem odd fellers was a breedin mischief.""
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Few images in the Darktown series tie so closely to the fashions of their day as this hand-colored lithograph, whose title jokes that a Black bicycle club has been "knocked out" in a tumble. Currier & Ives issued the Darktown comics during the 1880s and 1890s, and they relied on minstrel-show stereotypes to portray African Americans as objects of ridicule rather than as ordinary city residents. The bicycle craze of the 1890s, when cycling clubs were spreading across American cities, gave the publisher a ready target for this kind of humor. Today the print is worth studying as evidence of how popular prints used a new pastime to advance racist caricature.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| 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 | 1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174295 |
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