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Box 4

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Ox carts, circa 1901-1917, 1938, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: F1
Scope and Contents

Portrayals of oxen being used to pull wagons or as a means of transportation for Black people, often with a caption framing the image as quaint, outdated, or humorous.

Dates: circa 1901-1917, 1938, undated

Mammy stereotype, 1880s-1910s, 1948, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: F2
Scope and Contents

Portrayals of an enslaved woman or a woman in a servile position, responsible for domestic labor and white childcare, who is content in her enslavement/servitude and loyal to the white individual or family she serves.

Dates: 1880s-1910s, 1948, undated

Military, 1910s, 1944, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: F3
Scope and Contents

Cards depicting military scenes, settings, and personnel.

Dates: 1910s, 1944, undated

Miscegenation, 1904-1905, 1932, 1970, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: F4
Scope and Contents

Imagery that plays on fears of interracial romantic and sexual relationships as well as multiracial offspring resulting from these relationships, which were considered a threat to racial purity and white supremacist ideology.

Dates: 1904-1905, 1932, 1970, undated

Multi-stereotype families, 1911, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: F5
Scope and Contents

Cards depicting scenes of rural families that incorporate elements of several different stereotypes, in particular the Uncle Tom and Mammy stereotypes as father and mother figures and children who align with the Picaninny stereotype.

Dates: 1911, undated