Museum object · Racist and Stereotypical Objects
Fine Old Dixie Recipes: Southern Cook Book: 322 Old Dixie Recipes
1939
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A cookbook with a brown, wood board cover. The wood board front cover has a carved and painted illustration on the front of a stereotypical "Mammy" figure carrying a turkey on a tray. The figure is depicted in profile, facing the right edge of the cover. She is wearing a white kerchief on her head, a white apron, a red and white plaid dress, and a red neck kerchief with yellow polka dots. Black painted, carved lettering appears centered at the top of the front cover and reads, [Fine / Old Dixie / Recipes] in two (2) fonts. The back wood board cover is blank. The wood board covers are bound together with three (3) green plastic spiral rings at the spine.
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Catalog reference: 2007.7.388
