"How you like de new fashion shirt, Miss Florinda?" / Chas. Hunt, sc.
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- Title
- "How you like de new fashion shirt, Miss Florinda?" / Chas. Hunt, sc.
- Alternate Title
- Series title: Life in Philadelphia
- Date
- [183-?]
- Notes
- Derogatory depiction of a well-dressed African American couple discussing the "new fashion shirt" that the man is wearing. "Miss Florinda," who wears a green and yellow headpiece and a low-cut blue dress, holds her fan coquettishly near her face. She states that she finds the fashion elegant and how his wearing it within the "Abolition siety" made him look like "Pluto de God of War!"
- Inscribed in upper right corner: Plate 9.
- Names and Subjects
- African Americans--Caricatures and cartoons.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Social classes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.
- Courtship.
- Clothing and dress--1830-1840.
- Ethnic stereotypes--1830-1840.
- Prints shelf.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.
- Isaacs, Harrison,--publisher.
- ID
- 815
- Barcode
- B5265359
- Physical Description
- 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.0 x 16.5 cm, on sheet 35.3 x 26.5 cm.
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2016-08-12 00:01:23
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- William L. Clements Library Image Bank
- Image Size
- 3552 x 4938
- File Size
- 687 KB
- Record
- 815
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""How you like de new fashion shirt, Miss Florinda?" / Chas. Hunt, sc.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-815/wcl000909. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 05, 2024.