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 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Photograph of African-American Toddlers Captioned Alligator Bait, 1897

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses three novelty photographs of African-Americans created by Knoxville photographers McCrary & Branson in the late 1890s. They display caricatures of African-Americans that are offensive and should be considered sensitive material. One photograph includes a caption with a racial slur.

Dates: 1897

Photograph of African-American Children Climbing into a Bathtub Captioned Last One In's A N----r, 1898

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses three novelty photographs of African-Americans created by Knoxville photographers McCrary & Branson in the late 1890s. They display caricatures of African-Americans that are offensive and should be considered sensitive material. One photograph includes a caption with a racial slur.

Dates: 1898

Two-Paneled Photograph of African-Americans Sitting by a Fence Captioned Gimme de Rine and Ain't Gwine to be no Rine, circa 1890s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses three novelty photographs of African-Americans created by Knoxville photographers McCrary & Branson in the late 1890s. They display caricatures of African-Americans that are offensive and should be considered sensitive material. One photograph includes a caption with a racial slur.

Dates: circa 1890s