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Postcard featuring caricatured man at dinner table

July 25, 1908

Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America

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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.

Color postcard with a cartoon scene depicting a caricatured man sitting at a table. A turkey dinner is sitting on the table in front of the man, and a bucket of champagne chills in a bucket next to the table. A butler is visible in the background. Black type in image reads, ["I'm just barely / livin'. Dat's all." / (coon song.)]. Stamp, postmark, and handwritten message appear on reverse side of postcard. The card was sent and received in Michigan.

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Catalog reference: 2014.312.182

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