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Shirley Temple “humorous” postcards of black children, 1940s.

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1 Shirley Temple “humorous” postcards of black children, 1940s

2 “Look me over buddy… I’m a real brunette!” “humorous” postcard, 1930s Baby Jane, child star, mid-1930s

3 Early 20th c. sheet music: “Pickaninny Rag” (1908), “Topsy Two Step” (1904), and “Ten Baby Fingers” (1920) A scene from the 1927 film of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” starring Virginia Grey (Eva) and Marie Foster (Mammy), the death of Little Eva: “I’ll soon be going away, Mammy”

4 Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, in a scene from the film “The Little Colonel,” 1935 Top: Aunt Jemima pancakes ad, c. 1943 Bottom: Patsy, a “mammy” or nursemaid with her charge, 19th century

5 Shirley Temple doll, 1930s “Mammy” doll, c. 1940s

6 “Minstrel” pot, 1930s Shirley Temple cream pitcher and cup (send-away prizes from Wheaties boxes in mid-1930s)

7 Al Jolson, white Jewish “blackface” minstrel, 1930 Fredi Washington, African American actress who played Peola in the 1934 film “Imitation of Life”


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