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Newt Continues To Misuse History & Americans To Motivate Against America
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Kitten With… Ears!
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Jessica Savitch (Part One?)
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The Language Of Glove, 1879
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Signs Of The Times, 1945
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Newt Continues To Misuse History & Americans To Motivate Against America
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Kitten With… Ears!
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Jessica Savitch (Part One?)
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The Language Of Glove, 1879
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Signs Of The Times, 1945
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Vintage Feminsim
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Black Americana Archive
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Still Using The Word “Negro” In 1977
In 1977 I was 13, and I know use of the word “negro” was a no-no. But here’s proof it was not only said by ignorant white trash folk, but…
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Be My Racist Valentine
It’s been a few years since I did a racist Valentine’s post, so I thought it was time for another. Vintage Black Americana Valentine, complete with watermelon and poor puns,…
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The History, Legacy & Power Of Housewives (And Woman In General)
I found this photo of a National Housewives League meeting Detroit, Michigan, in 1945 while researching the Organized Housewives, a completely unrelated group. The National Housewives’ League of America was…
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Lincoln’s Check To “Colored Man With One Leg”
An ad for Life of Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell (found on page 65 of the March 1925 issue of The Mentor magazine), which thought the best promotional effort would…
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Of Brown Marie, Yellow Marie, And Pickaninny (Or, Of Racism In The Toy Wife)
I don’t think I can let Black History Month go by without mentioning 1938′s The Toy Wife. Primarily the movie is the story of Frou Frou (played by Luise Rainer),…
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The Very Best From Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through The Years
The Very Best from Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through the Years, by Ellen Stern, is not a collector’s guide, really; there are no prices or discussion of the secondary market at…
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It’s Not Blackface When They Have Black Faces, Right?
I love this vintage cotton novelty print blouse from the Bahamas — well, at least until I spotted the three Bahamian singers… Then I worried that they looked a lot…
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Signs Of The Times: 1968
Photograph by Steve Schapiro, New York, 1968. As an ephemera collector, I can’t help but wonder… What ever happened to that sign?
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Popular Racism, 1857
In 1857 (a year before Darwin’s The Origin of Species), creationists Dr. Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon published Indigenous Races of the Earth, which included illustrations comparing the skulls…
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Some Lessons In The Soiling Of Old Glory
At Collectors’ Quest I just reviewed Louis P. Masur’s The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America — a book I can’t recommend highly enough….
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How To Make Yourself A Black-Faced Negro
From Max Factor’s Hints On The Art Of Make-Up, Booklet No 5: Popular Stage Types (23rd edition, copyright 1961), instructions for “black-face comedians” to become The Negro. Part of my…
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Don’t Expect To Find Help Making That Penis Quilt At Jo-Ann Fabrics
Apparently, the March/April issue of Quilter’s Home magazine was “too hot” for Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts — at least that’s what they told the distributor for the magazine when they…
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You Can’t Judge A Racist Nun By Her Habit, Part Two
More vintage sheet music owned by Sister Patricia; this time, Story Poems with Musical Settings by Phyllis Fergus. The song, The Woodpecker (copyright 1925 by Clayton F. Summy Co.), takes…
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The Zulu Lulu Barware Infection
Don’t hate me for wanting to get one of these Zulu Lulu swizzle stick sets — it’s just too horrific not to own if you’re into non-PC things, which I…
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Lawsy Me! What Pe-Culiar Postcards
Some vintage black stereotypes presented on vintage linen fold-out postcards:
