Bar Thuldy's Statue: Liberty Frightenin de World

Derived from Currier & Ives American
 Publisher United States Mututal Accident Association American

Not on view

This racially caricatured "Statue of Liberty" was created as an advertisement for United States Mutual Accident Association. The imagery derives from an 1884 Currier & Ives lithograph, part of their Darktown series where offensive racial stereotypes are applied to Black subjects. That the firm issued so many works of this type demonstrates how commonplace racist imagery was in nineteenth-century American culture. It is hoped that by studying the context that produced such images, today's viewers will work to minimize discrimination, stereotyping and intolerance.

Bar Thuldy's Statue: Liberty Frightenin de World, Derived from Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907), Color lithograph

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