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Life in Philadelphia How you like de new fashiom shirt, Miss Florinda? [graphic] lith. of Imbert
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Bd .912 .Im.1
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- Format:
- Image
- Author/Creator:
- Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 1795-1834, lithographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Clothing & dress--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1830-1840.
- African Americans--Social life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1830-1840.
- City & town life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1830-1840.
- Local Subjects:
- African Americans--Clothing & dress--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1830-1840.
- African Americans--Social life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1830-1840.
- Genre:
- Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 20 x 16.9 cm, mount 26.3 x 21.5 cm.
- Contained In:
- Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [Publisher not identified], [between 1830 and 1834]
- Summary:
- Print shows a garishly dressed African American man talking with a garishly dressed African American woman in a parlor.
- Notes:
- No known restrictions on publication.
- Title from item.
- Caption continues: I tink dey mighty elegum --I see you on new year day when you carry de colour in de Abolition 'siety --you look jist like Pluto de God of War!
- Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
- Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
- Local Notes:
- Exhibited: "Fashioning Philadelphia," Library Company of Philadelphia, July 2015 - March 2016.
- OCLC:
- 892503748
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