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Samantha's new book

Description: Image of an advertisement for the book Samantha Among the Colored Folks; several small vignettes feature an older knitting; a couple walking arm in arm, three African American children, an African American man, and an older man playing piano.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1894
Call number: priJLC_ART_003121
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Crosman Bros. “Sowing the seed.” Seeds new crop Rochester, N.Y

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Image of an African American couple walking through their yard together in an advertisement for Crosman Brothers of Rochester, New York; man holds a rake over one shoulder, has his arm around the woman's shoulders, and they gaze at each other happily; seeds and seed packets fall from the basket over the woman's arm and are eaten by the chickens following her; house and sunflowers past a wooden fence in background.

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Yer' 'and, yer' 'and

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Image of a couple, with the man wearing a monocle, walking arm-in-arm past an angry looking man in a bowler hat; the poster presumably advertises the farce comedy "The Guv'nor" written by E. G. Lankester.

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The exiles and other stories by Richard Harding Davis

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Image of an advertisement for The Exiles and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis featuring an African American woman walking along a shoreline with a suitcase over one shoulder and a bundle with walking sticks under her arm; a man stands at the top of a bluff holding a lit cigarette at top left; ship on the water in background at right.

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Read pink marsh "the lansimous boy."

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Image of an advertisement for Pink Marsh featuring a well-dressed African American couple; both the man and woman wear bowler hats.

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Pat Rooney's New York star combination : Woodson and Bennett, character artists

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Image of three vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of minstrel performers Harry Woodson at upper left and Laura Bennett at lower right in formal dress and an older African American man, presumably Woodson in blackface, at upper right, with a xylophone, ribbon bow, and floral panel in the background.

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Annear's unrivalled Japan paste premium blacking

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Image of an advertisement for Annear's blacking; caricature of an angry older man swinging a cane at chickens pecking at his shiny black boots while an African American slave man runs and drops a boot at left, saying "Oh! Massa! Massa! Dat's de blacking. Dem dere chicks will catch me next."

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