The coon club hunt--Taking a header"" – Vintage 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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Step back in time with The coon club hunt--Taking a header"", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The coon club hunt--Taking a header""
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A lithograph with a hunting-field theme, this print shows Black figures staging a parody of a fox hunt, with one rider's headlong fall captured in the title's "taking a header." Currier & Ives issued it around 1885 as part of its Darktown series of comic caricatures, which relied on minstrel-show stereotypes to ridicule Black Americans' social aspirations. Today it is best read as evidence of how mass-market imagery in the Gilded Age framed race, and its racist content is part of its historical significance.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Title transcribed from item. Caricature issued as part of the Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit |
| Subjects | Fox hunting--1880-1890. African Americans--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174253 |
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