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Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.

1895

Kentucky, 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.

This stereograph card depicts an elderly couple in front of a wood plank house. A man and woman sit on a bench in front of the house. The man gazes at the woman, while the woman gazes at needlework she holds in her lap. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical text. On the left side margin is script that reads "Strohmeyer & Wyman Publishers/ New York, N.Y." On the right side margin is script that reads “Sold only by Underwood & Underwood/ New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads “Uncle Tom's Cabin - the Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A. / Copyright, 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman." There is text on the back.

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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.31

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