A political debate in the darktown club: settling the question – Antique Wall Art
(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 political debate in the darktown club: settling the question
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Among the Darktown scenes Thomas Worth drew for Currier & Ives, this one is set in a political club, where the title promises a debate that will finally be settled. It dates to around 1884, a presidential election year, when partisan argument filled newspapers and cartoons. The series relied on exaggerated dialect and stereotyped figures to treat Black urban life as comic material, so its humor rests on demeaning portrayals that modern viewers should weigh carefully. Researchers will find it useful as evidence of how popular prints framed race and politics in the Gilded Age.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1884. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : Chromolithograph. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). 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 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175021 |
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