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1873-01-01
Library and Archives: Stacks: Periodicals: American Agriculturalist
GUSN-194745
This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes.
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The illustration "The Old Nurse's Visit", by Thomas Hovenden, depicts a woman watching a man paint. The illustration was published in the "American Agriculturalist", volume XXXII, issue 1, page 28. 1873-01-01
artists (visual artists)
workers
painting (image-making)
illustrations (layout features)
Project number HNE0064
1 illustration : woodcut engraving
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Non-Historic New England periodicals
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American Agriculturalist (Publisher)
Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895 (Artist)
illustrations (layout features)
African American women
Black People
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Etched
Included in the Boston African Americana Project.
Item
New York, N.Y.
Orange Judd & Co.
Library and Archives: Stacks: Periodicals: American Agriculturalist
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