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Oh carry me back to ole Virginny / Lith. & printed in colors by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, New York. – Historic Print

Oh carry me back to ole Virginny / Lith. & printed in colors by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, New York., New York : Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, c1859. — antique lithograph
Oh carry me back to ole Virginny / Lith. & printed in colors by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, New York., New York : Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, c1859.. Antique lithograph from the Virginia 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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A hand-colored lithograph titled "Oh carry me back to ole Virginny" links a popular song to the printed image trade of the late 1850s. It was produced by the New York firm Robertson, Seibert & Shearman and carries a c1859 date. Its subjects are listed as domestic life among African Americans in Virginia, along with families and enslaved people, which places it within the sentimental plantation imagery that circulated widely before the Civil War. The print was later shown in the exhibition "Picturing the Banjo," and it is worth reading with that context, since such images often shaped how audiences imagined Southern life. The song's title was later adopted as Virginia's state song in 1940.

Created / publishedNew York : Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, c1859.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
Genreand other venues
NotesCopyright by G.W. Hillman & Co. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Picturing the Banjo" at the Palmer Museum of Art
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Domestic life--Virginia--1850-1860. Families--Virginia--1850-1860. Slaves--Virginia--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,437 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216473

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