Cartoon,African Americans,Children,Family,Puppies,Laundry,Clothesline,1922

Title: 'Dat's a remarkable fine chile, Mis' Peebles, what name have you giv her?'
Creator(s): Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, artist
Date Created/Published: 1922 Apr. 27 [publication date]
Summary: A cartoon of a black man in tattered clothing conversing with a black woman surrounded by her family, as she hangs her laundry to dry in her front yard. Her husband sleeps in a chair next to the front door. A young black girl stands next to her mother, staring at the visitor, while another child sits on the ground and plays with puppies. There are several dogs in the yard.
Notes:
Copyright by Life Publishing Company.
Inscribed below the title: Dat chile is so kind and gentle in her ways dat I was 'bleeged to fin' a name fo' her dat was sof' and smoovfe so I calls her Ambrosia.
Signed, lower right: A.B. Frost.
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.19)
Published in: Life, April 27, 1922.
Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, 'The Art in Cartooning,' 1975.
Subjects:
African Americans--Children--1920-1930.
African Americans--Domestic life--1920-1930.
Names--1920-1930.
Caricatures--American--1920-1930.
Drawings--American--1920-1930.
Periodical illustrations--American--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2009616723/
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