A Skinner Skinned,African American Man,Shoemaker's Shop,Jewish Cobbler,c1884
Title: A skinner skinned / V. Ostenbach.
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Date Created/Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St., c1884 March 22.
Summary: Print shows an African American man seated on a stool in a shoemaker's shop; while trying on a boot he puts his foot through the bottom, knocking over himself, the stove behind him, and the stereotyped Jewish cobbler, who is hit in the nose with the sole of the boot. The cobbler exclaims, 'Oh! mein gootness! der bottom ish knocked out.'
Notes:
P or D6118 U.S. Copyright Office.
Title appears as it was printed on the item.
Signed on stone: V. Ostenbach.
Copyright by Currier & Ives, N.Y.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5943
Subjects:
Shoemakers--United States--1880-1890.
Jews--Employment--United States--1880-1890.
African Americans--United States--1880-1890.
Ethnic stereotypes--1880-1890.
Lithographs--1880-1890.
Bookmark /2004672435/
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