<I>Mrs. Newlywed’s New Wench Cook</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1900
name: label: Photograph by
content: Griffith and Griffith, founded 1896
label: Published by
content: Griffith and Griffith, founded 1896
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A monochromatic half-tone print with hand tinting mounted to thin a stereocard, depicting a woman standing at a kitchen table. This stereo card consists of two identical side by side images. In a heavily geometric patterned kitchen, a dark haired woman stands behind a dark four legged table. She wears a white dotted red scarf on her head, a red blouse, and a checkered skirt. At the white cloth covered table are bowls, utensils, and a rolling pin. To the proper right of the table, half visible in the camera’s frame, is a slat back wooden chair. A significant portion of the wall behind the woman is covered in fractal-like tiles or wallpaper, above which hangs ladles, decorated plates, tea cups, and various other objects. The floor is entirely patterned, and there are indiscernible objects strewn there, in front of the table the woman works at. To the woman’s left, beyond the doorway, more hanging plates and cups are visible atop another ornate wall and a set table. The floor is also very ornately patterned in an unknown material. Below the right image card, printed on the sheet in bold English is: Mrs. Newlywed’s New Wench Cook.
label: Statement
content: Objects depicting racist and/or stereotypical imagery or language may be offensive and disturbing, but the NMAAHC aims to include them in the Collection to present and preserve the historical context in which they were created and used. Objects of this type provide an important historical record from which to study and evaluate racism.
place: label: Place captured
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Caricature and cartoons
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Foodways
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Racist and Stereotypical Objects
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Mark Miller and Barbara Smeltzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2019.3.5
objectType: label: Type
content: relief halftones
label: Type
content: stereographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with dye on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 3 1/16 × 6 in. (7.7 × 15.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 3 7/16 × 7 in. (8.8 × 17.8 cm)