African-American Man has shoe shined by White Boy
date: label: date made
content: 1850s-1860s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: hand colored stereograph; printed on verso "THE WHITE SLAVE. / Copyright / A.A. CHILDS & CO / Makers, / 127 Tremont St., / BOSTON"; African-American man standing in profile wearing yellow and black gingham pants, black coat with long tails, white button down shirt and vest with top hat and holding a silver handled cane; African-American man has his right foot raised on a low box and his shoe is being shined by a young, white (caucasian) boy; young white boy is kneeling on the ground in profile wearing black pants, white button down work shirt and a cap and is holding a brush to shine the shoe of the man; on the wall behind them are broadsides denouncing slavery and announcing a play (?) "The White Slave"; more broadsides saying "No Slavery / Freedom" and "Great Meeting / Negro Amancipation / Poor Slaves"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
label: Subject
content: Men
label: Subject
content: Boys
label: Subject
content: Workers
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Work
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0388
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm