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| Keywords: library company of philadelphia librarycompanyofphiladelphia african americana africanamericana dandies satires emancipation anti-slavery antislavery politics voting shoe shine shoeshine race relations racerelations lithographs photo border sketch drawing surreal Satire belittling the increasing rights of African Americans following the Emancipation Proclamation depicting a white shoe shine boy shining a black dandy's shoes. On a street corner a boy deigns to shine the shoes of a well-dressed African American man as a carraige passes by. The boy tells his smiling white urchin friend who stands next to the dandy that he extends such civility because he needs the man's vote when he starts his political career. 8033.F.3 Lithograph, c.1863. Link to record on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog: lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&a... Satire belittling the increasing rights of African Americans following the Emancipation Proclamation depicting a white shoe shine boy shining a black dandy's shoes. On a street corner a boy deigns to shine the shoes of a well-dressed African American man as a carraige passes by. The boy tells his smiling white urchin friend who stands next to the dandy that he extends such civility because he needs the man's vote when he starts his political career. 8033.F.3 Lithograph, c.1863. Link to record on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog: lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&a... | ||||
