<I>Down in Dixie</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
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
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: American South
label: Topic
content: Caricature and cartoons
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Stereotypes
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2019.3.4
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 × 6 in. (7.6 × 15.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.7 cm)