Painting
Holiday Card of African American Children Eating Watermelon
| Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the second girl, wearing a hat, is seated on a watermelon. A fence is in the background. Handwritten in the lower left corner is the text: "A Few Small Blots Will Mar the Whites!" A gold ribbon holds the two pieces of the card together. On the back is written: "Merry Xmas to Henry." |
| Image ID: | 80625 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | Greeting card collection, circa 1850-1982 |
| Genre: | Painting |
| Original Format Type: | paintings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6013, Box 4, Fldr 70 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6.9375 x 6.5625 inches |
| The text "A Few Small Blots Will Mar the Whites!" is referring to the one-drop theory (or one-drop rule), the historical colloquial term for the standard, found throughout the USA, that holds that a person with even one drop of non-white ancestry should be classified as "colored," especially for the purposes of laws forbidding inter-racial marriage. |
| Children |
| Race relations |
| Fruit |
| Clothing and dress |
| Dresses |
| Hats |
| Food |
| Ephemera |
| Fences |
| Christmas |
| Greeting cards |
| Holidays |
| African Americans |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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