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(BLACK MEMORABILIA—RACISM.) BARKER, MOORE AND MEIN.
Barker’s Komic Picture Souvenir.
Approximately 140 unnumbered pages of carica-
tures. Original oblong 4to, pictorial chromolithographic cloth-backed covers; tiny chip to
the upper right corner of the cover.
Philadelphia, circa 1893
[300/400]
One of the first of these “souvenirs” to be issued by Barker and Co, filled with cartoon caricatures.
Notable are the stereotyped images of people of color in compromising positions and situations. Images
like these were to be found throughout the popular culture of the latter part of the 19th century into
the early 20th. The images of blacks were distinctly different from those of whites, and were all part of
a post-Reconstruction view of African-Americans that fed into the myth of the shiftless, petty chicken
thief, and object of derision.