BEIN BrSides Box 2012 23: Verso text: "Millie Christine! 8th wonder of the world! The famous two-headed lady. Remember, that the opportunity of seeing this, the most marvelous wonder on Earth, is afforded you but once in a life-time...", BEIN BrSides Box 2017 49: Verso text: "Engagement extraordinary, for the season of 1883, at the enormous salary of $25,000, with Millie Christine, the renowned two-headed lady. A human miracle, who has astonished and interested the lights of science, men of eminence, and the medical faculty of this and the Old World...", BEIN In Process 1: Verso text: "Millie Christine! 8th wonder of the world! The famous two-headed lady. Remember, that the opportunity of seeing this, the most marvelous wonder on Earth, is afforded you but once in a life-time...", BEIN In Process 2: Verso text: "A human miracle. Millie Christine, the marvelous two-headed lady. This most astonishing and pleasing of all wonders posesses the extraordinary appendages of two fine heads...", Broadside advertisement for conjoined African-American twins, Millie-Christine., and "To be seen only in John B. Doris' Great Inter-Ocean, largest and best show on Earth"--Verso.
Manuscript meeting minutes, 12 March 1900 to 19 March 1902
Description:
African-American women's organization, founded on 12 March 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut, when eighteen members elected officers, including Mrs. John Ross, Jr., President; Mrs. W. B. Johnson, Vice President; Mrs. Carrie Hickman and Mrs. Eugene Henderson, Secretaries; and Mrs. Ann S. Kinner, Treasurer. The club met weekly to discuss works by and about African-Americans and to plan community activities.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven
Subject (Name):
Women's 20th Century Club (New Haven, Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
African American women, Societies and clubs, African Americans, Societies, etc, and Women
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.), author
Call Number:
JWJ A +998
Container / Volume:
1941-1947/1948
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Pictorial album
Description:
BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Langston Hughes: 1944 (page 42)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: From the Richard Merkin papers: 1945, 1947/1948., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Leroy H. Jenkins, 1945: 1945 (cover)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Stamp on covers: Dr. L.H. Jenkins, 2346 No. 25th St., Philadelphia: 1947/1948., October 1941; title from cover., and 1947-48.
Publisher:
Pyramid Club
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American men, Societies and clubs, and African American women
Title from caption below image; series title from heading above image., Prints in this series are based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Date of publication based on an American publication., Sixteen lines of text below title: One hundred dollar reward. O yes, know ye, all person, whereas on or about the 33d inst of ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Date of publication based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia.
One of a series of British social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th-century middle-class Philadelphians, mainly the city's growing community of free African Americans. Influenced by an increasing fascination with American culture and a growing racism stemming from the abolition of slavery in England, the African American characters are depicted with grotesque features and manners, wearing outlandish clothes, and speaking in patois and malapropisms to be portrayed as ineptly attempting to mimic white high society. In this print the artist mocks African American vanity and the desire to look white: a well-dressed African American woman purchasing shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." The belle, portrayed with mannish features, wears a yellow bonnet with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair. Seated, she slightly lifts her red dress to inspect the black shoe that the African American sales clerk has just placed on her large foot. She believes the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The kneeling sales clerk attempts to persuade her that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." Another clerk with a row of boots behind him is seen in the background performing as a store sign states, the "Best Jet Blacking Sold Here." On the left, an African American couple is seen walking passed the store
Alternative Title:
New shoes
Description:
Title from caption below image. Series title appears at top of image., Prints based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American women, Afro-Americans, Clothing & dress, and Shoe stores