Craps-a close call: Come you pretty Seben-Gib my gal new shoes!"" – Historic Print
![Craps-a close call: Come you pretty Seben-Gib my gal new shoes!"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f8ec2dd259e3-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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Step back in time with Craps-a close call: Come you pretty Seben-Gib my gal new shoes!"", 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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This lithograph takes its title from a dice game, "Craps," and its caption renders dialogue in exaggerated phonetic dialect, a convention of the minstrel stage. Issued by Currier & Ives in New York in 1890 as part of the *Darktown* comics series, it belongs to a body of cartoons that caricatured Black Americans as comic, idle, and gullible. Such prints were widely sold in the decades after Reconstruction and helped spread demeaning stereotypes. Today historians study them as evidence of how racist imagery shaped popular entertainment and public attitudes.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| 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 × 1,069 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174275 |
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