Wake up There! What'r Ye 'Bout ?
date: label: Date made
content: 1846
name: label: maker
content: Jones, Edward
label: maker
content: Newman, George W.
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white print of a white man wearing high boots with spurs, overalls, a neckerchief and a top har riding a bob-tail nag on a dirt road. He is passing a marker which reads “% miles to New York.” He crowds the black man’s white horse off the road so that it rears. The black man is wearing a white cotton pants and a shirt with rolled up sleeves. His bare feet hang below the stirrups.
label: Description
content: Edward Jones was a New York City lithographer from 1844-1849. He was associated with the firms of Jones and Palmer (1844) and Jones and Newman (1847-1848).
label: Description
content: George Newman was a New York City lithographer from 1846-1849 with the company of Jones and Newman. Jones and Newman started in 1846 at 128 Fulton Street and remained there until Newman left the firm in 1849. The firm created the 1848 “Illuminated Pictorial Directory of New York” which was released in four parts, with six finely colored lithographs in each part. This was the earliest, rarest, and most important series of New York views depicting Broadway from Battery to Anthony Street.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Comic prints
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1840-1849
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Blacks
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3582
label: catalog number
content: 60.3582
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 9 1/4 in x 16 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 41.275 cm