Museum object · Racist and Stereotypical Objects
Down in Dixie
1900
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 color half-tone print depicting two women seated with four children. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In the daytime, outside the door of plank wood structure, two dark haired women face the camera. The left-most woman wears a light blue-gray dress layered over a pink long sleeve top. She holds a toddler dressed in a dark top and yellow bottom. Beside her left knee, two dark haired children are seated wearing patterned green tops. There is a round object just behind the child seated on the far right. The second woman wears a red long sleeve top and breastfeeds a child dressed in pink and yellow. Below the right image card, printed on the sheet in bold English is: Down in Dixie. Copyright is also indicated for Griffith and Griffith.
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Catalog reference: 2019.3.4
