The Scrapbook Collection: Special Collections yields a small but rich sample of African Americana. Greeting cards, trade cards, and other images pasted in the volumes represent racial caricatures of African Americans made popular during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Nineteenth-Century Children's Scrap Album (1880-1885) Contains a set of seven cards for Higgins German laundry soap, as well as several cards for Eureka Poisoned Fly Plate depict African-Americans to advertise the product.
Scrapbook No. 2, (1 item)
Depiction of smiling southern African Americans in work clothes.
Scrapbook No. 4, (12 items)
Depiction of an African American’s woman’s life Monday - Sunday; advertisements for domestic products; head of African American protruding from fruit.
Scrapbook No. 8, (1 item)
Half of a Valentine’s Day card depicting an African American in the process of cooking with the caption "Dis is fo’ muh Valentine."
Scrapbook No. 10, (2 items)
Christmas card with African American caricature on front; New Years card depicting an African American dressed as a jockey riding a bike.
Scrapbook No. 11, (1 item)
Depiction of Ira Aldridge as Aaron in the Shakespearean play Titus Andronicus.
Scrapbook No. 17, (2 items)
Depiction of African American female holding a fan; Minstrel show playbill dated February 21, 1865.
Scrapbook No. 19, (17 items)
Depictions of African Americans in various settings including domestic and recreational.
Scrapbook No. 29, (3 items)
Depiction of an African boy riding a camel; Africans on a boat; Africans on the shore.
Scrapbook No. 30, (2 items)
Depiction of two female Africans; female Africans as ladies in waiting.
Scrapbook No. 31, (3 items)
Depiction of African American man placing an item in his bag; Africans harvesting tobacco; advertisement for Liberia Coffee.
Scrapbook No. 33, (1 item)
Depiction of three African Americans sitting on a bench.
Scrapbook No. 34, (2 items)
Depiction of African Americans playing the banjo; African American boy at a circus surrounded by whites.
Scrapbook No. 37, (2 items)
Depiction of an African American man carry a white man’s bags; African American workers in the process of loading a large bundle.
Scrapbook No. 39, (1 item)
Depiction of two children, one African American, the other white, sharing a newspaper.
Scrapbook No. 46, (2 items)
Depiction of African American men shucking corn; African American boy under whom is written a derogatory caption. Images appear near the back of the book.
Scrapbook No. 54, (3 items)
Depictions of African Americans as entertainers.